Hi Elio, You posted a question concretely about NHibernate's health in a NHibernate forum, so somehow your concern was about NHibernate. I'm really curious about what made you think that NHibernate specifically was dead.
About those other projects, I can only speak about Castle (never cared much for the others): The ohloh statistics for Castle ( https://www.ohloh.net/p/castleproject ) are based on *all* Castle projects, so they're skewed. Most of them are really dead. The ones that are still actively maintained are Core, DynamicProxy, Windsor, Transactions and the NHibernate facility. Monorail was pretty much absorbed by ASP.NET MVC. ActiveRecord was rendered largely obsolete by FluentNHibernate and later advancements in code-based configuration in NHibernate and things like SharpArchitecture. Also, many people, myself included, just don't need IoC containers any more. I dropped many of the libraries/frameworks I used to use because they're simply not worth their complexity. Still, if you're missing any features in LinFu or Spring, you should post to their respective mailing lists, get involved in their development. As I usually say, open source is the ultimate do-it-yourself: if you need something, go ahead and implement it. Never wait around for it to magically happen. Cheers, Mauricio On Sunday, December 23, 2012 6:55:21 PM UTC-3, Elio Batista wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>>: > > 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]<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nhusers/-/e6wTbjAf4aMJ. 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.
