Does 'going to the attic' mean that the Cocoon project site will go away? Hopefully NOT as many people use it for maintenance purposes.
On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, 11:03 warrell harries, <warrell.harr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org >>> >>>
