Re: Apache MUSE (was: [VOTE] Retire Muse and WSIF to the Attic on muse-dev)

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Glen Daniels <[email protected]>wrote:

> Is everyone OK if we hold off the MUSE resolution until our next report,
> and
> see what if anything develops here?  So this month we'd submit the WSIF and
> jUDDI resolutions.
>

+1


>
> Thanks,
> --Glen
>
> On 8/15/2010 12:26 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> > I'd consider this to be a boundary case.
> >
> > On one hand, it is of course in the interest of anyone to have the
> > project alive, rather than retired. OTOH, while Jonas has contributed
> > some bug reports (4), including patches and has voiced on the MUSE
> > mailing lists from time to time (4 times, exluding this mail), that's
> > not sufficient for me to say "no problem, just make him a committer"
> > without hesitation.
> >
> > And, of course, he still has the option to continue on SourceForge or
> > something like that.
> >
> > Jochen
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Jonas Buys <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am a Ph.D. student working at the university of Antwerp (Belgium) on
> reliability improvement of XML-based web services.  For our work, we are
> using Apache MUSE which we host on top of Axis2 1.5.1.  Some of our students
> are also using MUSE for their master thesis.
> >>
> >> We are afraid to see the vote that is currently going on to retire MUSE
> to the Apache Attic.  By retiring the project, we fear that the consequences
> such as a read-only JIRA section may impede further improvements of MUSE.
> >>
> >> For some time now, we have been maintaining an internal MUSE build in
> which we have patched open issues/bugs as we encountered them and improved
> parts of its implementation, like we recently did for MUSE's default WS-SG
> implementation.  Furthermore, apart from fixing occasional bugs and/or
> limitations, we are currently finishing an RC-status implementation of the
> MOWS specification.  We would be willing to donate this code to the
> foundation (after code cleanup and thorough testing).
> >>
> >> Has it already been decided MUSE is "fin-de-vie"?  Or is there still a
> chance to revive the project?
> >>
> >> We are looking forward to your reply.
> >>
> >> Sincerely Yours,
> >> --
> >> Jonas Buys
> >> ---------------------------------------
> >> University of Antwerp
> >> Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science
> >> PATS Research Group
> >> ---------------------------------------
> >> Middelheimlaan 1, Bld G, Off G322
> >> B-2020 Antwerp
> >> ---------------------------------------
> >> (T)     +32 472 365108
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>



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