On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Gaetan Zoritchak < [email protected]> wrote:
> First of all, I love wicket. I think it's a very effective framework, > with an active community. > Great, thanks! > But ... > > I regret that some tools reduce its visibility. I think, in particular, the > mode of exchange based on a mailing list is quite outdated. This mailing > list which requires subscription limits the number > of participants. Heh. You just said we have a very active community. While I do like Stack Overflow for many things, it's not a true way of building a community. It's a way of asking questions. (Yes, this is just my opinion - not meaning to start a flamewar). We have a vibrant community here - I don't think the mailing list is limiting the community. Plus, mailing lists are still THE way to communicate in open source. Especially is this true with Apache projects. > Moreover, research on old messages are poorly referenced. I > have recently experienced it one more time during the migration of my > project on Wicket 1.5. The solution to my problem has already been > discussed > and resolved but it took me a long time to find it. Why not drop this > mailing list and discuss all questions > onStackOverflow. The business community would be more visible. > How can we quantify such a statement? If you can provide some kind of proof that it's easier to find an answer by searching SO rather than mailing list archives, we could look into alternatives. But such a statement just isn't easily (if at all) quantifiable. > Source management and bugs are also outdated. The version on github is much > better. > Github is awesome. I don't care about the issue management on it. JIRA has a ton more features and support. It works for us. I think that we would like to move to git at some point - but it's not (yet) supported for all projects at the ASF. There is a public beta running of git for one project at the ASF right now. If it succeeds, I think we'll be one of the first projects to switch as soon as they make it available to all projects. > My 2 cents, > > Gaetan > Thanks! Hope to see you around this antiquated mailing list :) -- Jeremy Thomerson http://wickettraining.com *Need a CMS for Wicket? Use Brix! http://brixcms.org*
