Thank you everyone!
I'm very glad to have earned your esteem. Being « committed » to
Wicket was already a reality for me, since I am coordinating the
development of various Wicket-based applications. And since day
one I give much attention to the quality of the code, avoiding the
_hacks_ and always trying to find the Right Wicket Way or chasing
down the Nasty Wicket Bugs. And believe me, there are still a
good number of them, I'll be hunting them thoroughly one by one.
Now it's true that working with patches was a bit frustrating
during the past ten months.
To give you some insight into me: I'm also a committer on Apache
Cocoon, which has a great URL matching and request processing
system (the famous sitemap) based around XML processing pipelines:
very impressive Open Source technology, I wish I could reuse those
features as a Java API anywhere outside of the Big Beast. I also
contribute to some other pieces of OSS, mostly FreeBSD, but I
admit there is no Wicket port yet: Java applications are often not
good candidates for porting.
Getting into some more personal stuff: I live in Toulouse, France
with my family since three years, life is very pleasant there. As
a hobby, apart from accordion (yet another keyboard), I started to
rewrite my photo gallery with Wicket and I'll probably move it to
wicket-stuff once it does something useful.
And last, I'm looking forward to meet you at the ApacheCon in May.
Meeting face to face is much better, isn't it?
Thanks again,
--
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
aka John Banana Qwerty
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
