Whatever anyone thinks. I am not happy that you are so agitated. If I could do something sensible to help, I would. I do think that people are generally more than capable of making their own decisions about what they want to read. There is little chance for competition in the arean of ideas if those in power exercize that power to extinguish ideas and submissions they find a thorn on their rose.
See, that's what kills me. You are still stuck on this "us and them" theory.
You seem to be pretty good at creating new accounts with GMail, here's what you can do:
- go out to SourceForge.net
- create a new Project
- add all your code you've been working on that you say "those in
power" have been "extinguishing [your] ideas and submissions"
- complete any one of the projects
- make a release available for download
- make an [ANNONCEMENT] on the Struts or others mailing list
inviting all interested parties to try it.
The best way to provide (force) an enhancement into Struts is to do so through a plug-in.
If people actually use your plug-in, there will be discussion about it. That's exactly what happened with many other projects.
Here's just a couple of examples: - struts-menu http://struts-menu.sourceforge.net/ - security-filter http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net/ - struts test case http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net/
There are many others out there I have not even mentioned.
Here's another similar example:
Back in 2002, several people were asking if it was possible to use a database to store their i18n'd resource bundle instead of the default one provided by Struts. So I sat down and wrote one, but ran into a few issues...
http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg40667.html
Now, what became of that idea? Like your idea, there was not much interest by the committers. Instead of whining about it, I decided to release it under the same License that all ASF software uses.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49385&package_id=76369
I provide both the library, and a working copy of the struts-example modified to demonstrate it's use. And in the years it has been available, I have received many thank-you emails from people I've never even heard of.
Did my contribution make it into the Struts code? No. Did I commit it, once I was asked to join the team? No. I followed the same procedure outlined above. It's not something that enough people want, therefore it doesn't belong there. And since it is so easy to use by adding a jar and changing your struts-config.xml, there's really no reason to add it.
-- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist Consulting / Mentoring / Freelance EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx Yahoo: jmitchtx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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