On 18 May 2004, at 11:17, Derek Hohls wrote:
Out of interest, are there any plans to link up more formally with ASF?
Not ATM. xReporter is a "functional, vertical app" (if you catch my drift), and it's my personal conviction that the ASF (and "community open source" in general) is better at frameworks and infrastructure, like Cocoon, Struts, and assorted server software (httpd!) or development tools (like Ant), rather than more functional applications like blogging tools, IDEs, CMSes, ERP systems, reporting engines and the like. But this is very much IMHO, of course.
Also, the development community of xReporter isn't as diverse ATM as one would like to see in an ASF project. People tend to use it (and be happy with it!), rather than hack its sources. We are seeing a surge of interest on the xReporter mailing list ATM (http://lists.cocoondev.org/xreporter/), so hopefully that will change. It's good to see the transition happen from "free support" to "users debating with and helping each other", and I think this is a big change for xReporter. I think it is fairly normal, given our low-profile-and-no-nonsense attitude, that this took more than a year.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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