Query - is there any desire, among this community, to continue the effort of SpectraSource - ie - someone (or group) manages the code base. They accept contributions from the community, approves and QAs them, then releases them?
======================================================================== === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:59 PM > To: Spectra-Talk > Subject: Re: Spectra, the Final Frontier > > > Tom, > > Spectra code is CF code, so it will continue to be supported under > existing support agreements (if you have one). We are a Gold Support > customer and will be continuing with the product and will > help to grow it > in any way that we can. I don't understand the attitude of > your company, > with CF support in mind. Let me ask you a question. Have you > ever opened a > support incident with Spectra? Personally, in the 3 years > I've been using > it, I have never opened one Spectra specific ticket. > > I made my response of thanks directly to Tim Buntel, not to > the list. Our > plans are to help grow the codebase and continue with it > indefinitely, as > we are committed to CF as a platform, and Spectra as our CMS > framework. > For people who are from CF shops, but haven't purchased a CMS > yet, it will > be a great framework to get started. Perhaps with some > marketing push from > MM and a good developer community, Spectra can be reborn again anew. > > Shawn Gorrell > > > > > "Tom Briscoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 07/14/2003 02:45 PM > Please respond to spectra-talk > > > To: Spectra-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: Spectra, the Final Frontier > > Hello all. I was surprised by the relative lack of response > in regard to > Tim Buntel's announcement of Spectra going open source. It > was what I'd > hoped for as a "final" fate for the product. However, I will > admit my own > company will not use a product that is not supported by a > vendor. So that > has eliminated Spectra as a long-term option (at least in my day job). > > I'm interested to see what any of us remnant Spectra > developers will do > now. I would expect there is potential for Spectra to grow > if it still > has its good points. What from Spectra do you plan to or > consider worth > carrying on? Anything? > > Briscoe > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/spectra_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
