Dear all,

'Goodbye and thanks for all the fish' - I'm sure the Cocoon sitemap will
still be powering production systems for many years to come. Perhaps there
is a story to be written of it's history and impact?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, 21:27 gelo1234, <gelo1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That is sad news. But all good things come to an end.
>
> Anyway even today I don't find any RESTful like framework that still got
> that versatility of defining woking URLs "methods" on-the-fly and
> extensibility like Apache Cocoon! I mean really 4GL framework..
>
> But future has come and today we have 5GL frameworks that enables us
> to _define_ WHAT we want to achieve, not HOW. And this is the imminent
> future.
>
> But the concept of Pipelines that introduced Apache Cocoon will stay with
> us for a long time! That is absolutely BRILLIANT! And Henry Ford would be
> PROUD that Apache Cocoon was first of its style to implement that "feature"
> known from 18th decade Factories.
>
> Thank you guys for your involvement in this project. We are still using
> Cocoon at production
> and for a future time being we will be using it (over 15 years of
> development produced tons of code :) that
> is not so easy to "rewrite" or replace with something new :)
>
> Anyway Apache Cocoon made us survived the worst times and those good too -
> like a partner in marriage or a loving Son! :) We will definitely miss that
> kind of joy, happiness and professional career "enabler" :)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Greetings,
> Greg
>
>
>
> sob., 21 gru 2024, 00:21 użytkownik Cédric Damioli <cdami...@apache.org>
> napisał:
>
>> Dear fellow Cocoon users and devs,
>>
>> The past years have seen a significant decline in the participation of
>> Cocoon's development team.
>> Even though Cocoon remains fairly widely used to this day, there is no
>> longer enough interest to continue maintaining this project.
>> Thanks to Christofer's work, we tried to revive activity last year by
>> releasing Cocoon 2.3. While this initiative generated a true resurgence
>> of interest during that period, the following months revealed that there
>> were no longer enough active developers to keep the project alive.
>>
>> Last August, the developers voted [1] to move Cocoon to the Attic [2].
>> It is now time to say goodbye to this beautiful project.
>>
>> On a personal note, having worked with Cocoon for 22 years, I feel a bit
>> sad to let it go, but all good things must come to an end...
>>
>> On behalf of the Cocoon PMC,
>> Cédric
>>
>> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/pv43my558v4pxks584cmooxzcr5mkn6d
>> [2] https://attic.apache.org/
>>
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