David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
The creator of ActionWebService, Leon Breedt, seems to be on a
long-term vacation from Rails work
Is he alive? Does anyone know if he's OK?
and no one else in the core group
is working with this framework. So its not a good fit to be in core
when none of core is deeply familiar with it.
I agree that for something to be in core it must be maintainable by
known maintainers. I assume Leon fell into that category, without (I
guess) being in the core team.
> On top of that, it's not
one of those things that "most people need most of the time", so
that's another strike.
Do you know the figures here? Without daring to tread on the ground of
"is Rails enterprise-ready?" I would point out that being able to offer
functionality either through a Web UI or via a web service is a big
enterprise "tick in the box".
With those charges, we want to unbundle AWS from the core distribution
of Rails. That sounds dramatic, but it's really just a 1 line change
in the Rakefile of railties:
- s.add_dependency('actionwebservice', '= 1.0.0' + PKG_BUILD)
...and if you actually used AWS, it would be easy as pie to keep
installing it with:
gem install actionwebservice
So this is a very likely thing to happen for 1.1. If you have any
concerns as to why it shouldn't go down like that, please voice your
opinion. If you want to take the lead on maintaining AWS, please speak
up too (that won't stop our intentions to unbundle, though).
Personally, I believe that anything up to Rails 2.0 should respect the
commitment to "not break the Book (AWDR)". At the very least, there
should be a succession of versions that warn the user before something
actually breaks.
Perhaps you should go through the book and publish the "truck number"[1]
of each feature.
regards
Justin
[1] Truck Number - the number of people who would need to be run over by
a truck to render a given feature unviable.
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