Hi Mauricio, posted here https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/altnet-hispano/9REUVpyyRM0
2012/12/23 Mauricio Scheffer <[email protected]>: > 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]>: >> > 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 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. -- 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.
