Yes, I know I am part of the community, and yes, I have spent my "free
time" in colaborating with several open source projects and creating
some little patches to Trinidad. I know about open source and I know
about community that supports it, and you are right, time is finite
and all of we have lots of things to do.
1.0 it's not a good example, you're right. I'm sorry if my words have
offended to anyone.


Rafa

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Scott O'Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> What?  Your example is the 1.0 branch?  Let me ask you this.. If
> MyFaces 1.0 and 1.1 receiving active development?  What about he R.I.?
>  What about Tomcat 3 or 4 or 5?
>
> The 1.0 branch is old and we supported it, IMO, until well beyond when
> most projects would have abandoned it.  Further, there are only so
> many hours in the day and the community, as a whole, needs to either
> do this work in their spare time or because of what they need to do
> for their real jobs.
>
> That's not a community issue, but one of open source.
>
> Look at it this way, all that development that used to go into 1.0 is
> now going into 1.2.  All of the development that used to go into 1.2
> is now going into 2.0.  That's the natural progression of things.
>
> And let us not forget either that 'YOU' are the community..  If you
> wanted to see active development on 1.0, then it's your right to speak
> up.  I, for one, think that the Trinidad community benefits from more
> voices.
>
> Apache, after all, is not about product, it's about people.
>
> Scott
>
> On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:46 AM, "Rafa Pérez" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well, I think one of the principal problem is that there is not much
>> documentation on Trinidad's internals... it's quite difficult to
>> create a new renderkit if you don't know how to do it.
>> And yes, community it's not very active on Trinidad's development...
>> just see 1.0.x branch is being abandoned...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- Rafa
>>
>>
>> 2011/3/4 Scott O'Bryan <[email protected]>:
>>> Yeah, makes total sense.  I mean heck, Trinidad's extendability and
>>> plugability are second to none in that regard.
>>>
>>> I know I, for one, would lobe to see an new/enhanced renderkit to beef up
>>> the Trinidad system and it's been talked about several times about having a
>>> series off "Additional" renderkits added, but nobody's actually buckled down
>>> and done it.  ;)
>>>
>>> If there are any takers, by all means I can provide some infrastructure for
>>> you to do all your work.
>>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Walter Mourão <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Scott
>>>
>>> When I first started with Trinidad, before the thing moved over to
>>>> Apache, the AJAX was still using iframes instead of
>>>> HttpServletRequest.  :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> me too!
>>>
>>> I mean as far as Rich Renderkits go, Trinidad was one of the
>>>> earliest.  Many other renderkits got to take advantage of newer
>>>> technologies.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes... maybe that's the point: what about creating a new render kit using
>>> JQuery (for example) ? Trinidad has rock solid back end and, the same way
>>> there is a pda render kit, it could exist a JQuery render kit. Does it make
>>> sense ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Walter Mourão
>>> http://waltermourao.com.br
>>> http://arcadian.com.br
>>> http://oriens.com.br
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Scott O'Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe.  I mean as far as Rich Renderkits go, Trinidad was one of the
>>>> earliest.  Many other renderkits got to take advantage of newer
>>>> technologies.
>>>>
>>>> When I first started with Trinidad, before the thing moved over to
>>>> Apache, the AJAX was still using iframes instead of
>>>> HttpServletRequest.  :)
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Dominik Dorn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's maybe that people want fancy JQuery/Javascript components like
>>>>> those used everywhere else
>>>>> on the web and primefaces has those (its basically just a wrapper around
>>>> em).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/3/4 Walter Mourão <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this because of the commercial backing of the other two?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think so... as far as I know there are companies offering
>>>> Trinidad
>>>>>> support/consulting (Irian <http://www.irian.at/trinidad_support/>, for
>>>>>> example). Not sure about the level of commitment of these companies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Walter Mourão
>>>>>> http://waltermourao.com.br
>>>>>> http://arcadian.com.br
>>>>>> http://oriens.com.br
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've had similar concerns. until recently there hadn't been any
>>>> apparent
>>>>>>> movement in Trinidad development. Is this because of the commercial
>>>> backing
>>>>>>> of the other two?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mar 4, 2011 5:53am, Walter Mourão <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I'ma happy Trinidad user, so far, but I'ma bit worried about its
>>>> future.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I'm seeing the evolution of Icefaces, Richfaces and (mainly)
>>>> Primefaces
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I feel like Trinidad isn't going with the same pace.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Am I right ? What do you think ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Walter Mourão
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  http://waltermourao.com.br
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  http://arcadian.com.br
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  http://oriens.com.br
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dominik Dorn
>>>>> http://dominikdorn.com
>>>>> http://twitter.com/domdorn
>>>>>
>>>>> Tausche Deine Lernunterlagen auf http://www.studyguru.eu !
>>>>
>>>
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