Hi Bob, See inline.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Bob Buffone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin, > > XAP has been inexistence for two years and the team has worked hard to > get it to the point it is at today. As you know though the XAP project > has struggled to create a livable community of users and developers. > Without a community, it is hard to attract new developers to sustain > creation of additional features and releases. Understood. I wasn't trying to belittle where the project is today, or the work that has gone into it so far, by any means. I'm observing, though, that development itself appears to have ceased now, so I wanted to bring that up and see if there is still interest from the existing developers, or if we should consider this the end of the line for XAP. > We still use XAP as part of our Ajax offering and will do so until the > next release. The bits can be integrated from any SVN and decisions > about what to do with the XAP project shouldn't be tied to Nexaweb's > corporate needs but rather the community, committers and Apache. While I certainly agree that decisions about XAP should not be based on Nexaweb's needs, it's also true that Nexaweb people have been the primary force behind the development of XAP so far. Thus, it seemed likely to me that, if Nexaweb moves away from XAP as part of its product offerings, contributions from XAP developers who are also Nexaweb employees would fall off. Observing that development has stopped, I was wondering if this was related, that's all. > I will leave it up to the XAP committers about what to do with the XAP > project. If anyone has a suggestion on what to do with XAP, respond to > the list. Agreed. I'd certainly like to hear from other developers, or interested parties, on the list. -- Martin Cooper > Bob (Buffone) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Martin Cooper > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Is XAP dead? > > It appears that there has been no traffic or activity on XAP for quite > some > time. > > Most recent messages, as far as I can determine: > > xap-user: 19-Feb-2008 > xap-dev: 06-May-2008 > xap-commits: 03-Apr-2008 > > Should we consider XAP to be dead? Should it be withdrawn from > incubation? > > Nexaweb folks: Is Nexaweb still using XAP in its products, or has that > been > supplanted by dojo.E now? Should we consider XAP to have been abandoned > by > Nexaweb? > > -- > Martin Cooper >
