Hi Mark, apologize if Cocoon doesn't satisfy your expectations, but please take in consideration that actually there is not even a single entity sponsoring Cocoon development - I mean, no one of us is dedicated 100% of paid time to Cocoon - so everybody involved here is juts a volunteer that participates in his spare time.
I hope you'll understand that behind mail addresses there are human beings with feelings and families, so we cannot dedicate the our free time only on OSS projects - even if we would like to do it :P Many thanks in advance for understanding and stay tuned! Best, -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:08:41AM +0100, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: >> On 02/03/2012 07:47, Jos Snellings wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> > And true, the documentation on the site does not make it easy enough >> > to step up the threshold and upgrade. >> > [@group: shouldn't we do something about that. Cocoon is losing its >> > user base, it will end up getting adopted only by a few old people out >> > there. It is gaining momentum on the planet Zork but that's not going >> > to help us on Earth, is it?] >> >> I agree: should we move to dev ML and discuss this "getting started / >> documentation" topic? >> >> > I hope this helps you on the way. It would make me very happy to know >> > that I am not one of the sole developers >> > on this planet who chose cocoon 3 as a development platform, for the >> > few times in your life that you are in the >> > position to make this choice for your customer! I chose for cocoon 3 >> > because I liked the new architecture. > > Maybe if it were RELEASED.... > > From the cocoon.apache.org homepage: > > Apache Cocoon 3 > Corona was accepted by the Cocoon PMC to become Apache Cocoon > 3. The Cocoon 3 website has more details. A first ALPHA release > will follow soon. [more] > submitted by Reinhard P�tz, 8/14/08 7:23:55 AM > [That is the LATEST entry in the News section.] > > Download the latest version: Apache Cocoon Version 2.2.0 > > Some documentation that tells us a little more than "TBD" would also > help promote Cocoon. > > I have what I think is still the latest book on Cocoon. It's from > 2003. IIRC 2.1 entered beta while the book was being completed. It > has a whole chapter about Avalon, which you can hardly even find > anymore. It's still a godsend if you want to find out how Cocoon was > meant to be used. > > For everyone outside the project, 2.2 hasn't quite finished happening > yet and 3.0 is just a wild rumor. People who built their products > around Cocoon feel abandoned. Nothing is happening. Bug reports seem > to be immortal -- even the ones with fixes attached. > > Gee, why would Cocoon be losing its user base? > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] > Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
