Awesome to hear from you Ted! +1 On 2009-05-27, Ted Husted <hus...@apache.org> wrote: > Speaking as an emeritus member, the best way to get further involved > in open source is to ask yourself, "What could iBATIS.NET do better > for me?" > > The reason products like EF miss the mark is because products like > this are too often engineered by people who don't use the product. > > All an open source products needs to be successful is three committers > who use the product every day, and try to improve it every day, so > that it will work as well for other people too. > > So, when putting together a TODO list, or creating a roadmap, the > first question to ask is which of these features is going to make the > biggest difference to me on my project. Forget that your project is > "special" (everyone's is!), first work on the feature that will help > you the most. Don't try to play the marketing game. Play to our > strengths; play the "works for me" game. > > While it sounds like a selfish approach, in the end, it's the best way > to create a framework that works better for everyone. > > HTH, Ted. > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Michael Schall <mike.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I would love a larger group of comitters and a lead. The company I work >> for >> uses iBATIS.Net heavily and don't want it to fall out of use. I was voted >> in as a commiter end of last year and have not be able to devote much time >> due to project load. Over the last couple weeks I have been going over >> the >> v3 code. Late last year Gilles had sent me the following as a TODO list. >> I >> would add nunit 2.5 upgrade and addition to externals-bin to the list. >> They >> have a breaking change which will cause us some issues. >> I have the change for xml namespace complete, but thought I would bring it >> up here to see what people thought as it will break everyone's validation. >> I have started looking into expression trees for the fluent interfaces >> change, however I have not worked with them >> before. I have not worked on docs or examples, >> I would love to remain on the team. Thanks for getting the ball rolling. >> Mike >> Gilles' TODO list: >> - change the target namespace of SqlMap.xsd and SqlMapConfig.xsd to >> "http://ibatis.apache.org/mapping/V3"; and do the validation against those >> schemas, I have try but not successes, don't know why ... >> - redo the fluent interface >> RegisterResultMap<Account>("account-result-nullable-email") >> .MappingMember("Id").ToColumnName("Account_ID") >> >> .MappingMember("FirstName").ToColumnName("Account_FirstName") >> >> .MappingMember("LastName").ToColumnName("Account_LastName") >> >> .MappingMember("EmailAddress").ToColumnName("Account_Email"); >> to something to >> RegisterResultMap<Account>("account-result-nullable-email", a =>a.Id ) >> ToColumnName("Account_ID") >> I will begin to do it >> - update the doc in V3 folder >> - Add a folder Examples... >> - Brainstorming about new dynamic sql engine something >> I'm thinking of using expression tree... >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Chris Weisel <chris.wei...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I have recently found myself with a great deal more free time than I had >>> previously. I've always enjoyed using iBatis, and I'd be very willing to >>> contribute. >>> >>> Who's going to be coordinating this effort, and what all is needed? What >>> are the goals? iBatis 2? Bugfixes for 1.x? >>> >>> Let me know what I can do. >>> >>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Sal Bass <salbass...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Per Clinton's suggestion, I am making this post to find out if we can >>>> keep Ibatis.Net going. As we all know, Ibatis fills an important niche >>>> and >>>> is still very relevant. We need people to take charge and to commit time >>>> for >>>> development. So, who's in? If we don't do this there is nothing to keep >>>> it >>>> going. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> Hotmail® has a new way to see what's up with your friends. Check it out. >> >> >
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