Re: Re: What's OSuser status?

Well, having multiple implementations of what is generally the same thing is
probably not a good idea. I haven't seen Robert's refactor, or maybe I have
but I've just gotten lost in all the versions :) We need to get one of these
in CVS and then Mike, David, Paul, and Robert (and myself I suppose) should
all huddle together and figure out where to go from here. If any of you are
interested, please request developer status on java.net for OSUser.

-Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hammant" <[email protected]>
To: "Pat Lightbody" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Cc: "'David Smiley'" <[email protected]>; "Mike Cannon-Brookes"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Opensymphony-developers] Re: What's OSuser status?


> Pat,
>
> The second refactor Robert Dawson did on his own is superior to the
"spike" we did together at
> GeekNight. I'd suggest that it is used as the basis for the future. I've
just had a quick look at
> David's Sandbox version - and have to say that because of the incomplete
interface/impl
> separation, I'll look no further.
>
> Perhaps we should also be mindful that diversity is a good thing. Is there
a way that one or other
> of the efforts can not trade as "OSUser", but still be released under the
Open Symphony license?
> In respect of the refactoring, the authors do not change, but there is
just one more added to the
> list of each affected source file (if at all).
>
> - Paul
>
>  --- Pat Lightbody <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, here's the deal:
> >
> > * The latest, KNOWN WORKING code is still the osuser module (no
sandbox).
> > This is probably the "most current"
> > * Mike started his own OSUser2 drive, wrote code, checked it in, and
then SF
> > CVS crashed and that's the last I've heard. Mike?
> > * David Smiley is the owner the the sandbox/osuser stuff -- it's a
rewrite
> > and the interfaces are there but no implementations are in place. It's
been
> > dormant for a while, but David has started to pick it up again and he
> > recently checked some stuff in (I don't know what).
> > * Paul Hammant did a spike on the current stuff and refactored it -- no
> > rewrite. He emailed us the code but we haven't done anything yet with it
and
> > there are still ongoing discussions.
> >
> > OK, with that said, I have no idea what to do. I want to migrate _one_
of
> > the above to java.net and let the rest die. Any ideas which? I'm leaning
> > towards Paul's code because it's a refactor of code i KNOW works, but
> > incorporate some of the ideas that David also addressed and allows for
> > better testability. I'm hoping that if we did that Mike, David, Paul,
and
> > many others would be able to work together on a single source tree.
> >
> > -Pat
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Miller" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:14 PM
> > Subject: [Opensymphony-developers] Re: What's OSuser status?
> >
> >
> > > I'm really confused about osuser now too - we're looking at using it
on a
> > > new project but I have no idea what codebase we should be grabbing.
> > >
> > > The code that's currently in sourceforge appears to be the latest
that's
> > > available, however I've seen a few posts that say the sandbox is more
> > > current. Well either my CVS client is broken or I'm looking in the
wrong
> > > place, because the osuser sandbox code is only a few files...  And
then
> > > there's the Wiki that talks up the mysterious OSUser 2.0
> > > (http://wiki.opensymphony.com/space/OSUser2) being developed at
> > Atlassian -
> > > " You can see the progress in the CVS sandbox under the osuser2
> > directory".
> > > But I can't see an osuser2 directory in the sandbox? And last but not
> > least,
> > > there's the www.opensymphony.com news that says a new version is
coming
> > from
> > > Paul Hammant and David Smiley.
> > >
> > > Someone must know something!
> > >
> > > "Hani Suleiman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > I'd love to know too, one way or another. It's getting really tiring
> > > > hearing 'yeah we'll let you know soon', I don't mind keeping up with
> > > > patches, and moving it to java.net, any of the 'grunt' work. Hanging
in
> > > > limbo like this though is hugely unproductive and just hurts the
> > project.
> > > >
> > > > As far as osuser sandbox and any other halfbaked implementations,
either
> > > > you come forth and finish it off and make it official osuser, or
your
> > work
> > > > is for nothing!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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