Tim O'Brien wrote:
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From: Vadim Gritsenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In fact at the Xindice site, the last new is dated february 2003
(http://xml.apache.org/xindice/news.html) while the link to
XML:DB api
(I know the are indipendent projects, but the two are linked somewhat)
is broken...
Anybody can explain me whiere Xindice is going on?
From what I can see, the support under Xindice seemed to disappear
around the same time dbXML version 2.0 was released. This isn't saying
anything bad about the dbXML people (I use dbXML now), it is simply
stating a fact.
http://www.xmldb.org lapsed, it seems to have been eaten up by one of
those mega-domain squatting organizations - this one is called
Euroserver.org Domains. I'd be interested in knowing who owned the
xmldb.org domain.
If you take a look at the mailing list traffic, you definitely get the
sense that the Xindice community has gone elsewhere.
Tim,
You're quite welcome to make all the assumptions you like, but the
community might simply be quiet because we're either busy or have
little to say right now. That doesn't mean that we've "gone elsewhere"
or that we don't exist. The xmldb.org or dbXML mailing lists and/or
domains are orthogonal to the success or failure of Xindice. For
myself, I've been happily using Xindice 1.1 without any particular
problem or need to chat. I'm usually in lurk mode.
The traffic on a mailing list is a very poor indicator of the health
of its associated community. Mailing list != real life, i.e., sometimes
lists are noisy because they're filled with people who little else to
do but chat away. Sometimes lists are quiet because their participants
are very busy. There's really no way to tell from the outside. The
Xerces mailing list is pretty quiet, but there are millions of people
using Xerces daily (most likely don't even know it).
As Vadim has repeatedly said, if you're interested in some features
that Xindice doesn't have, or want to contribute in any way, you're
always quite welcome to provide code or documentation. Communities
exist via both interest and contributions.
Murray
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Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
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