Re: [plum] Show of Hands

[Adam Churvis]

Folks,   Just so you know, we're listening and trying to decide how best to accommodate everyone.    Perhaps licensing the source code for both the IDE and the Framework for public modification with a couple of stipulations attached regarding proprietary rights.  This would certainly get everyone started improving Plum sooner and at their own pace and in their own directions.   Plum is exactly the tool we wanted for our own use, and it's been almost everything we've ever wanted for CF-based sites.  But our business is moving way beyond just websites over the next year, so we need to release our hold on Plum so that others can modify it as they see fit, when they see fit.   How would you all like to handle this?  We're open to any and all ideas. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Fleitz To: plum@mail.productivityenhancement.com Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: [plum] Show of Hands Hey folks, Can I get a show of hands of those of you on the list that still actively use Plum to develop applications (Adam and David, you don't count ;)?  Is anybody interested in seeing another version? Adam mentioned several months ago that there would be another version and was looking for volunteers to help with the tasking.  If enough people are interested, I think we should take him up on it. I still use Plum for all my development, even though I have been experimenting with Fusebox, ModelGlue, Ruby on Rails, and a little DotNet, and a little Flex over the past 6-8 months. I am an independent developer working on department-level applications, not working on an Enterprise team, and I find that Plum just fits better for what I do than all the Enterprise OOP frameworks out there. It is a testiment to the foresight and skill of Adam and David that I find Plum more than relevant still.  While Plum offers so much out of the box, there is still room for improvement and some bug fixes.  And we need to reach out to our non-Windows bretheren to try to get more traction and momentum, or move on to other environments. I personally would like to see Plum flourish, and so I am posting this message. I was recently going over the mailing list archives, and was amazed at how active we were as a community only a year ago.  Now it is like a ghost town.  I for one would like to see Plum resurrected and get some community involvement going so we can remain relevant. I have some ideas for enhancements, and I'm sure those of you that still use Plum do as well.  But before we put the cart before the horse - is anybody interested? -- v/r, Jeff Fleitz