Re: Now that the release is out, what's next?

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:36:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I mentioned this early, the DSpace Content Management project used 
Cocoon 2.2 until version 6.4 (v7 moved to Angular JS). They integrated 
with Solr and did a bunch of other things that may be worth a look.

The Cocoon interface was called xmlui (look for the subfolder), and 
available via Github:

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases

Source Code: 
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/archive/refs/tags/dspace-6.4.tar.gz

Great work on continuing the Cocoon legacy!

Dan


On 2023-11-19 10:20 a.m., Christofer Dutz wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> So, it seems that we finally have finished the last missing steps to 
> formally get the release out the door. Now I think comes a time where 
> we should reflect and discuss, what should happen with the Project.
>
> So instead of simply saying: Releasing it was such a struggle (not 
> technically, but from a participation side) I wouldn’t say this 
> project is healthy and we should discuss a move into the Attic.
>
> However, I could also imagine that the changes I implemented in the 
> build might encourage some folks to give it another go.
>
> I know when I was doing projects with Cocoon as part of my day-job 20 
> years ago, Cocoon 2.2 sort of completely broke my flow. Not only my 
> inexperience with Maven, but also that of Spring and the versioning 
> scheme where all sorts of cocoon modules had different versions just 
> made me give up at that time and switch to Adobe Flex ;-)
>
> Now (15 years later) Maven and Spring have evolved and with the 
> cleanups in the build, it should be a lot simpler to work with Cocoon 
> and with all modules sharing the same version, also this should be a 
> lot simpler.
>
> So, I would like to ask you folks:
>
>   * Should we aim directly for the Attic?
>   * Does anyone want to revive the project? (I’m intentionally not
>     only addressing committers and PMC members, but also people
>     wanting to keep the project alive)
>
> Chris
>