Hi Mauricio, thanks for your response, as developer i agree with you in your point. My main concern actually come from Ohloh's analysis. I was curios cause i noticed that projects like Castle, LinkFu, Spring.NET are virtually idle.
2012/12/23 Mauricio Scheffer <[email protected]>: > IMHO, less activity in a project does not imply its death. I have open > source projects that I hardly touched for over a year and they work in > production as usual, without issues. I don't touch them simply because they > already do whatever I need them to do (and this apparently also applies to > their users). Sure there's always ideas for cool new features and room for > improvements (sometimes we're even tempted to rewrite the whole thing), but > this takes time and effort. Time that can be used to (for example) deliver > actual business value. > > Compare to your workplace. At least where I work, there's quite a few > systems in production. Some of them don't get any changes in months, which > is actually a good thing, because it means they're doing what they're > supposed to do, which means that programmers can focus on changes that are > strategically important or deliver immediate business value. Not everything > has to change all the time. > > About NHibernate in particular, Ohloh's analysis ( > https://www.ohloh.net/p/nhibernate ) says that it has stable year-over-year > commits, so it's objectively not true that its activity is decreasing. The > last commit was seven days ago. Last release: two months ago. Also take a > look at the graph of contributors per month. There's quite a bit of activity > in this google group and in Stackoverflow. The NHibernate JIRA ( > https://nhibernate.jira.com/browse/NH ) shows many issues resolved in the > last month and a lot of activity in the last few days. > > May I ask what metrics or criteria you are using that led you to think that > NHibernate is dead? > > Cheers, > Mauricio > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nhusers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nhusers/-/brAeHDr5NsEJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.
