Re: what is current status and likely future of turbine ?

"It just works" - that's the most boring thing you can say about an OSS 
project but I see is as a big achievement.

Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl

Jeffery Painter wrote:
> It is nice to hear from the same old gang again... I remember most of the
> recent posters from several years back when I was a Turbine newbie...
>
> Unfortunately, my career has taken me into the dark side (C#/.net) but I
> must agree that if I were to have to write another web based app tomorrow,
> I would still pick Turbine. It is a robust (and dependable) system.
>
> Maybe that is to explain for the lack of traffic in the past few months.
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> Most of the projects I created with Turbine 3-4+ years ago are still in
> production (as far as I know) and fortunately "just work"
>
> cheers,
> Jeff
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>> I have used turbine on a number of commercial projects, including some
>> very large ones, for many years.
>>
>> I'm just writing a revision for a project and am using turbine 2.4M1. I
>> am pleased to be able to second Thomas Vandahl's comments. It works for
>> me!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> AFrieze wrote:
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>>> Tony Oslund wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Adoption of technology should be based upon things such as need, cost,
>>>> ease of use, maintainability, and availability of resources, past
>>>> success, amongst others.
>>>> I find that Turbine in conjunction with Velocity serves these needs
>>>> very
>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>> I have also wondered at times why this site is very quiet, and then I
>>>> realize that I rarely need to post questions, since there is the
>>>> archive.
>>>> It would be a shame to see a great technology fall by the wayside
>>>> simply
>>>> because it has been successful, people learn it quickly, the community
>>>> has been supportive, and because others make more noise.
>>>>
>>>> You used the term "several projects", which probably means several
>>>> successful projects.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps more noise is the answer...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Nick Ide [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30,
>>>> 2008 4:10 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: what is current status and likely future of turbine ?
>>>>
>>>> We have built several projects in the past using turbine.
>>>> We are beginning a new project and trying to decide whether to
>>>> use turbine or try something else. We are a little concerned that
>>>> turbine is dead or dying from lack of community.
>>>>
>>>> My questions:
>>>>
>>>> 1. When will turbine 2.3.3 be released ?
>>>> 2. Is anybody working on that release ?
>>>> 3. Is there any active work on the turbine code base ?
>>>> 4. If there is no work, is that because it all just works or because
>>>> everybody has abandoned turbine in favor of something else ?
>>>> 5. Probably asking the crowd since the people who voted with their
>>>> feet have stopped listening, but what do you suppose
>>>> people have adopted to use instead of turbine ?  is it VelocityStruts ?
>>>>
>>>> is it Spring ?  Others ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Nick
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>>> Just thought I would pop in real quick to let you all know that this
>>> is something I have been very interested in as well. I have worked
>>> heavily with a turbine project for the last 3 years and it has worked
>>> quite well for me. I am about to start a new project, and was also
>>> curious if turbine is dead, or if its just completed and bug free...
>>>
>>> AFrieze
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