Hi Andrus,

looks like I'm a bit late to the party... Thank you very much for all what you 
did for the community! You're right, it was an amazing ride.

So long, and thanks for all the fish, 

Timo


Am 25.01.2012 um 21:19 schrieb Andrus Adamchik:

> This is the last message sent via woproject-dev to its 332 subscribers. It 
> was a fun ride. WOProject was started some time in 2002. That's 10 years ago, 
> you know! The earliest message in the archive dated June 24 2002 had a 
> subject "This is a test", just a few days later there was something more 
> meaningful - "[ANN] WOProject 1.0 alpha released". And a month after that Uli 
> send a message "i have just added wolips into woprojects cvs..." The rest is 
> history :-)
> 
> Turning off woproject-dev (as well as womaven-dev, woproject-commits and 
> woproject-build and issues.objectstyle.org aka Jira) is also a milestone as 
> it means lights off for objectstyle.org as an open source community site. 
> Back in 2001 the only open source hosting option was SourceForge, which 
> wasn't that great. ObjectStyle was an experiment of how far we can go in 
> providing ourselves with everything we need to collaborate on the open code. 
> It was successful and launched 2 great communities that will continue to 
> thrive. Cayenne - at the Apache Software Foundation. All-things-WO - at 
> wocommunity.org. 
> 
> With 2 main projects "graduating" to their current homes, with Google Code 
> and GitHub out there, there is really no reason to keep going as 
> objectstyle.org. I will still own the domain (and a peer domain 
> objectstyle.com that belongs to my software company that is doing well and is 
> not going to disappear), will continue to host low profile resources needed 
> by friendly projects (currently - a Maven repo for things missing in 
> central). Maybe someday there will be a case for reviving the site, but for 
> now we are done. Thanks for sticking around.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrus
> 
> (P.S. don't bother replying to woproject list of course. You may send replies 
> to the apple list or to me directly)
> 
> ---------------
> Andrus Adamchik
> Apache Cayenne ORM: http://cayenne.apache.org/
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/andrus_a
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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