[DISCUSS] Retiring 3.0 ? (Was: Re: Future of the Cocoon project)

Hi,

First of the sub-project to be discussed, the Cocoon 3 project.
Never released, it only reached the alpha status 12 years ago.
Its goal was to provide a pure Java API on top of pipelines and sitemaps 
concept, to be able to easily implements lightweight REST applications.

We'd like to know whether you'd prefer:
[ ] retiring Cocoon 3.0
[ ] reviving/maintaining Cocoon 3.0, meaning that you volunteer to be 
somehow involved

Please note that the above proposal is not a formal vote, but more like 
a open poll, so that everyone could speak out.

Cédric


Le 30/11/2023 à 19:53, Cédric Damioli a écrit :
> Dear Cocoon users and developers,
>
> Sorry for crossposting here, I wanted to be sure that all involved 
> people were aware of the ongoing discussions.
>
> We recently pushed a new release of Cocoon, 11 years after the 
> previous one. This release gathers all changes made in between as well 
> as two security fixes discovered last year.
> The journey to roll this release out was definitively not an easy one, 
> and it's now time to think about what should be next for the project.
>
> We currently officially maintain 3 branches, not compatible with each 
> others and having evolved differently over the years : 2.1.x, 2.2/2.3 
> and 3.0, and we do not have enough active developers to be able to 
> continue to properly and correctly maintain them.
>
> For a project as old as Cocoon (21 years!), there may be many users 
> around here still using one branch or another, which could be 
> interested to step up, contribute and try to revive the project, or at 
> least some parts of it.
>
> I will soon start 3 threads on the developers list to decide what to 
> do about each of the 3 branches (retiring or not), so I encourage 
> volunteers to bring their voices.
>
> Best regards,
> Cédric, on behalf of the Apache Cocoon PMC
>

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Cédric Damioli
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