On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Stephen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Millman wrote: > > The quality of Trinidad it a testament to how Open Source communities work > best. > > Well, ... > I don't really agree, but maybe I am not involved deeply enough in the > community to judge. > Without wanting to offend anyone personally - it seems to me that > * it took forever to negotiate the legals of the first adf faces drop, then > it took another > eternity until Trinidad 1.0 and again it took a series of minor releases > until Trinidad was > mostly stable
That is better than no donation at all > * Oracle employees still do most of the work That is just because the Oracle employees are the ones choosing to do the work > * many people enjoy working on experimental stuff or whatever else they > like, all while > bugs that affect basic functionality pile up in Jira How many of the bugs have you fixed? It is the whole community's responsibility to maintain this code. That includes developers and users. Before I became a developer I helped people on the mailing lists and fixed some bugs and submitted new functionality for patches. It is my opinion that since everyone is a Java developer that uses Trinidad, they have the ability to fix any bugs they report. Almost all the bugs that I fix are ones I report because I have a vested interest in having them fixed. All users need to do is upload patches, it is really quite simple. > * documentation is, hm, let's say minimal. There isn't even some kind of > visual index to the > components. No small usage example at each component's tag docs. > That is even a step backwards from ADF Faces. Have you sent any documentation patches? This is the same as above, it you don't like the documentation, figure out what it should be and submit a patch. BTW, many of the original authors of this code are no longer around, so anyone who has the initiative is the best person to help the documentation. > * Now instead of working on Trinidad 2.0 Oracle decides to do yet another > component library. > Discussions about the initial drop are undergoing, so we might see a 1.0 > release in 2010. > By then it will be largely incompatible to the initial drop with all the > subtle difference > being poorly documented. Once again, users should not complain about any problems if they are not helping out. Summary: Open source software may be free in terms cost, but it is no where near free for time reasons. An open source project is only as good as the people and their effort that are contributing to it, whether developers or users. If you want software that is tested, documented well and has support and you are not willing to help, perhaps you ought to buy commercial software instead.
