Thanks for warm welcoming! We'll clearly communicate and document every feature/issue/task. So, please chime in any time if needed.
Cheers, Woonsan >________________________________ > From: Ate Douma <a...@douma.nu> >To: dev@commons.apache.org >Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 9:25 AM >Subject: Re: [SCXML] knock knock? > > >On 10/08/2013 02:18 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: >> Who's there :-) >> >> Agree with all your Commons SCXML related comments below.I've been >> out of time for this for a while; you're welcome to have at it. Being >> ASF committers helps as discussed down-thread. I'll continue to lurk, >> but likely won't be active in the immediate future. >> >> Welcome to Commons, >> -Rahul >> >Thanks for the welcome Rahul. > >Its great to hear you agree to the proposal, and welcoming us to go ahead. >Too bad you won't be able to participate directly, but we'll make sure to >properly discuss and propose important changes first, so you still be able to >chime in any time you feel like it. > >And knowing you'll still be lurking is cool: we'll assume no feedback as a >good >sign then :) > >Thanks and regards, Ate > >> >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ate Douma <a...@douma.nu> wrote: >>> Hi SCXML developers/community, >>> >>> We are trying to figure out what the status and activity of SCXML >>> development is, and and/or who in the community might be interested in >>> re-activating it. >>> >>> From the mailing lists and JIRA activity we gather not much has been >>> happening here for a very long time: the last release 0.9 dates back to >>> December 2008 and the last serious code commits to June 2011... >>> >>> Looking back through the history of SCXML, Rahul Akolkar was and pretty much >>> still is the only maintainer of the code but seemingly no longer able or >>> willing to contribute much anymore. >>> >>> So, what to do with Commons SCXML? >>> >>> To put it bluntly, we would very much like to revive the development of >>> SCXML again. >>> >>> We are working for Hippo (Open Source CMS vendor) and intend to start using >>> SCXML as state machine engine in our product shortly. >>> >>> As the latest release is so old, and based on only Java 1.4, we're looking >>> into using the Java 6 (J6) branch instead. But this branch is still 'work in >>> progress' without any release (but targeted at next major version 1.0). >>> >>> This J6/1.0 branch AFAIK is intended to cover the final SCXML specification >>> [1], but already running quite a bit behind the latest draft of that >>> specification. However, this being a W3C specification, having to wait for >>> it to become final before releasing a next major version of Commons SCXML >>> seems very counter-productive to me... >>> >>> Both myself and Woonsan are Apache committers on several other ASF projects >>> for quite some time, so we know 'how it works'. We would like to get out >>> hands dirty, start contributing on Commons SCXML, and help move it forward >>> towards a more current release. >>> >>> But the question is: is there still anyone out here willing to pick up and >>> review contributions, discuss stuff, etc. >>> >>> Hopefully Rahul can chime in (if still listening) and let us know what his >>> ideas and plans are, or else maybe other active members of the Commons >>> community? >>> >>> As a minimum we would like to get a Java 6+ compatible version released >>> soon, maybe as a first milestone release towards 1.0, and incrementally add >>> (more) compliance to the current SCXML specification. >>> >>> For this we propose to 'archive' the current stalled trunk (move it to a >>> 0.xx branch or something), promote the current J6 branch to trunk, and then >>> take it from there. Website and documentation fixes would be next to pick up >>> and straighten out and updating the current Maven build. Possibly drop the >>> outdated Ant build as well if nobody really is using or dependening on it >>> anyway. >>> >>> As said, we're willing to step up here, but as non committers for Apache >>> Commons we do need a 'handle' to get stuff moving again. >>> >>> Thanks, Ate & Woonsan >>> >>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/ >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > >
