On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:40:51PM -0600, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> The creator of ActionWebService, Leon Breedt, seems to be on a
> long-term vacation from Rails work 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. On top of that, it's not
> one of those things that "most people need most of the time", so
> that's another strike.
>
> 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).
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> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-coreWe'd be happy to take on ActionWebServices, as we use it daily in much of our business process. I had run into the issues in 1.8.4 but decided the benefits of AWS made 1.8.2 adequate for now. We were unaware there was a maintainer vacancy. The 'we' i'm referring to are myself, trey dempsey, and kevin berry (deathsyn). -- TJ Vanderpoel GCIA,GCIH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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