[mochikit] Is MochiKit Dead?

2011-08-13 Thread machineghost
So, given that:

* There hasn't been a blog post on the website in ... ever (according
to the front of the site; in reality there was a post back in 2008)
* There hasn't been a release since 2008
* This mailing list gets a post (with no response) once every other
month or so, if that
* MochiKit is less popular than random frameworks I've never heard of
(xajax? what's that?) by a factor of six (http://www.readwriteweb.com/
hack/2011/08/javascript-framework-popularit.php)

it really seems like MochiKit is a dead project, or at best a zombie
project.  Is that accurate?  I mean, obviously people currently using
it aren't going to stop, but is new development, promotion of the
framework, improvement of the website/docs/etc. dead?

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Re: [mochikit] Is MochiKit Dead?

2011-08-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM, machineghost machinegh...@gmail.com wrote:
 So, given that:

 * There hasn't been a blog post on the website in ... ever (according
 to the front of the site; in reality there was a post back in 2008)
 * There hasn't been a release since 2008
 * This mailing list gets a post (with no response) once every other
 month or so, if that
 * MochiKit is less popular than random frameworks I've never heard of
 (xajax? what's that?) by a factor of six (http://www.readwriteweb.com/
 hack/2011/08/javascript-framework-popularit.php)

 it really seems like MochiKit is a dead project, or at best a zombie
 project.  Is that accurate?  I mean, obviously people currently using
 it aren't going to stop, but is new development, promotion of the
 framework, improvement of the website/docs/etc. dead?

Zombie sounds about accurate to me, we still use it but it's done what
we've needed it to do for quite a few years so we haven't bothered to
make any changes to it. We don't have a lot of incentive to encourage
other people to use it, especially at this point. If someone is
interested in making improvements they're more than welcome to do so,
it's all pretty much github based these days so accepting pull
requests, adding contributors and updating the site is very easy.

-bob

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