*** Important **** Avalon/Frotress debate

All,

If you have invested time and money in writing or using Keel/Fortress/Avalon
components, please pay attention.  There is discussion in Avalon land on the
future of Fortress (which Keel depends on).  I have included my response
below, but if any of  you care to, please send your opinion in.

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Shash

Here's my 2c on the topic:

[1] Fortress stays in Avalon with maintenance
 [2] Fortress moves to incubator for TLP
 [3] Fortress moves to D-Haven
 [4] Fortress moves to XXX (enter your choice here)
 [99999] Fortress is nuked and users forced to migrate

(lower is more priority, 1 is better, 2 is worse.)

I don't know how to show associations in this format.  Here's what I really want:

[1] Fortress stays in Avalon with maintenance, binary compatibility, and new
enhancements/features. At the same time, have a defined migration path with
binary compatibility to the unified Avalon container (must support features
ECM, Phoenix, Fortress users have come to depend upon, even though they may
not technically be the best solutions).  I'll also add that I am volunteering
to help with maintaining and enhancing Fortress as part of a team.

Shash

Berin Loritsch wrote:

> I don't want to belabor the point, nor do I want this to drag on forever. 
Quite simply put, this opinion gathering tool is in the form of a vote, but it
is not binding.  It is only a way to show your preference.  Please put a
number of the order of preference that you have for what to do with Fortress.
 If any of the options is completely disagreeable put a -1 next to it.
>
> [] Fortress stays in Avalon with maintenance
> [] Fortress moves to incubator for TLP
> [] Fortress moves to D-Haven
> [] Fortress moves to XXX (enter your choice here)
> [] Fortress is nuked and users forced to migrate
>
> This is merely an opinion poll, so please don't write real long comments. 
If you have a new option, write it in.  The results of the opinion poll will
feed a proposal I have so that we can move along quickly.