Migrate from Avalon to something else
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Key: JAMES-911
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-911
Project: JAMES Server
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: James Core
Affects Versions: Trunk
Reporter: Serhiy
Priority: Critical
Reasons:
1. Apache Avalon project was closed in 2004. There are no software projects
without bugs. And Avalon bugs are not resolved for years!
2. You can't find any documentation about Apache Avalon!
I am a java developer and I was interested in Apache James project and even was
going to start contributing some code. But when I started to investigate more
about James I could not understand how you could use something that is years
old, have no active maintenance and development and even don't have any public
documentation. I even can't find any details about what exactly Avalon does! I
am absolutely positive that there are a lot of modern alternatives to some
Avalon. From the other point of view if Avalon was something good it would not
have been closed. Avalon is closed and this means that nobody was interested in
it and nobody really needed it.
If you want to attract some non payed developers to your open source project it
should be interesting for them to work with your project. But there are
references from your site to http://avalon.apache.org/ and when new developers
see that site it does not encourage him/her to start to dig deeper.
Avalon is dead. You need to move forward!
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