Re: Open source WO - offer

Woah! When I posted the idea a few days ago I was very pessimistic  
about anyone stepping in for real.

> I imagine WONDER wouldn't mind hosting the sources.

ObjectStyle.org wouldn't mind either - we can offer SVN, website,  
better mailing lists, Jira and Confluence (with single user id across  
WOProject/WOLips and "open WO" project).


> Are there any other companies willing to do the same? If we were  
> able to gather, say, five developers, chances are that it would  
> succeed.

I (as an individual, not a company) will be willing to help porting  
EOEditingContext to work on top of Cayenne stack, not full time  
though. And of course I can help with various admin tasks.

Anybody else?


> Because we have lots of WO code, we would be interested in creating  
> an exact clone at first, BSD licensed. Then there would be room for  
> improvements and creativity.

I totally agree with this approach. This is the only way one can  
leverage the vast existing code base. Otherwise there are other open  
source choices, so why bother with the port.

Andrus

On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Wojtek Narczyński wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We would be willing to dedicate one man-year to the open source  
> reimplementation of WO / EOF. Are there any other companies willing  
> to do the same? If we were able to gather, say, five developers,  
> chances are that it would succeed.
>
> Because we have lots of WO code, we would be interested in creating  
> an exact clone at first, BSD licensed. Then there would be room for  
> improvements and creativity.
>
> I imagine WONDER wouldn't mind hosting the sources.
>
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