On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Vincent Siveton <vsive...@apache.org> wrote: > Joining the Apache community is great news, gives more visibility to > the SocialSite community and ... lets an opportunity to the project to > not simply die.
My thoughts exactly. > Worthwhile initiative, thanks Dave! > > As Shindig PMC, I am specially interested on the Shindig parts :) > Could you please comment: > * "Project SocialSite is ... based on Apache Shindig (incubating)" > Could you develop on this integration? Is that it can be seen as a > kind of risk due to the incubation? SocialSite is basically Shindig plus these things: - Persistence for social data via JPA - Extensions to OpenSocial APIs for friending, gadget management - Infrastructure for running gadgets remotely, similar to Friend Connect - OpenSocial gadgets that form a complete UI for social networking Since Shindig is still in incubation, SocialSite's graduation could be put at risk should Shindig fail to graduate. > * "keep in sync ... with the Apache Shindig (incubating) project" > How do you plan to do that? I am willing to help you! That simply means periodically upgrading the version of Shindig we use in SocialSite. That can be a bit of a pain because the Shindig handlers/services interfaces tend to change alot. > Also, an IP question: do we need to have in our hands the grant paper > from Sun before starting the incubation process? Good question. I think we do need the code grant paper work first, but perhaps after a vote. Anybody else have comments/questions about the SocialSite proposal? - Dave > 2009/4/9 Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Nick Lothian >> <nloth...@educationau.edu.au> wrote: >>> I'm quite interested in this proposal - I think it's a good fit at Apache, >>> and Dave has put projects through the incubator before. >>> >>> I'd like to highlight something that's made me a little hesitant about >>> getting involved in SocialSite earlier, though. As it stands now it's quite >>> large, moderately complex codebase, with a very, very small community. The >>> commits mailing list shows Dave has been the only committer active on it >>> since January, and the dev list is also of correspondingly low volume. >>> >>> In the "Reliance on Salaried Developers" the proposal says "Risk level: >>> moderate. The community includes members who are paid to work on the code >>> and some who are not." What part of the system are these paid developers >>> working on? >> >> Those are valid concerns and your observations are correct. >> >> The salaried developers are from the consulting firm Globant, which >> has an OpenSocial practice and has done extensive work for Google. >> They are preparing to put SocialSite into production at a large web >> site made up of multiple web applications and communities. They have >> been working on "porting" SocialSite to JBoss, Tomcat and making the >> JPA implementation work with Hibernate's JPA. They have not yet >> submitted patches for this code. >> >> - Dave >> >> >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Dave [mailto:snoopd...@gmail.com] >>>> Sent: Thursday, 9 April 2009 11:12 AM >>>> To: general@incubator.apache.org >>>> Cc: Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart; rovagn...@gmail.com; Jamey Wood; Robert >>>> Bissett; leandro.milma...@globant.com; rodr...@globant.com; Tony Ng >>>> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Apache SocialSite >>>> >>>> Greetings to all, >>>> >>>> It's my pleasure to present to you a proposal for a new project Apache >>>> SocialSite, a social networking service based on Apache Shindig >>>> (incubating) with an end-user interface composed entirely of >>>> OpenSocial gadgets and designed to add social networking features to >>>> existing web applications (e.g. Roller, JSPWiki, your favorite webapp, >>>> etc.). 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