Hi all! > If 1.6 is coming and this project does not support it, how can we> handle it? > After all we are not working for the Tomcat project, we are > working for ourselves,
indeed. From the commons HP: "The Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components." I am personally here to serve the whole community and all users without any restriction, but providing help to another (even non ASF) community is totally different that receiving constraints. That is *not* OSS, this is working for someone else! I'm not a Tomcat committer (unfortunately for me) and not all users are Tomcat users as well, so having this restriction is not IMHO a benefit for the community. That's alway why I stopped contributing on [pool2] after people "kindly" decided to rollback all the activity Gary and I did - I am guilty as well mainly because I accepted it and replaced all the work done, but anyway was not an unanimous decision, unfair and driven by a subset of all of us. That should be not an acceptable behavior. > and Gary needs a generic version. I would not > like to see him going and make up a github fork. People outside of > this project are already saying we are like dinosaurs (collections vs > guava). That is exactly what is happening: just to mention yet another "bad" feedback we recently got, please read the last comment on IO-279[1]: "that should be fixed in my fork". I went to the project page, where it is reported: "Tayler is a log tailing implementation forked from Apache Commons IO, providing improved performances, bug fixes, cleaner APIs and a codebase which will be actively maintained and developed :)" So, looks like users are interested on having something we are not providing them. Not everybody has the same needs and we are serving just a subset of all potential users we could have. Just my 0.002, all the best, -Simo [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-279 http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
