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

On 01.12.23 17:41, C=C3=A9dric Damioli wrote:
> 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

+1 for retiring Cocoon 3.0. Most likely you would start from scratch
anyways if you want anything in that direction.

Regards,
J=C3=B6rg

> Please note that the above proposal is not a formal vote, but more like
> a open poll, so that everyone could speak out.
>
> C=C3=A9dric
>
>
> Le 30/11/2023 =C3=A0 19:53, C=C3=A9dric Damioli a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
>> 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,
>> C=C3=A9dric, on behalf of the Apache Cocoon PMC
>>
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