RE: Barracuda upgrade story

Hey Tom!

> Considering we've done nothing more than monitor the mailing
> list, I think that keeping a stable API for nearly two years
> is pretty damn impressive. Well done guys!

Thanks for sharing...that really is great to hear! I think it illustrates
the soundness of the layered design, and the quality of the committers - on
this end, Jake deserves particular credit as he's been the driving force
behind keeping everything up-to-date and running smoothly for the year+...

In an industry where everything changes so rapidly, it's always nice when
things deal with that change gracefully ;-)

Christian
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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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"Coffee? I could quit anytime, just not today"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tom Adams
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Barracuda] Barracuda upgrade story
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Thought I'd share with you the experience of one of our developers with a
> Barracuda upgrade. To provide some background, our last CVS snapshot of
> Barracuda was on 9th January 2002, since then, for various
> reasons, we've not
> kept up to date with the source tree.
>
> We're currently in the process of open sourcing a database we've
> been building
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kowari). The developer working
> on it came to
> me yesterday asking about updating the version of Barracuda used in a
> web-based query UI. He came in this morning, and said that it
> "just worked".
>
> He had a grand total of two changes to make, 1) removing references to
> BCategory, and 2) adding handleViewEvent(BComponent). Both of
> these he made
> with no prior background with Barracuda, and by only reading the javadoc.
>
> Considering we've done nothing more than monitor the mailing
> list, I think
> that keeping a stable API for nearly two years is pretty damn impressive.
> Well done guys!
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
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