>From a community perspective, can I ask you to make sure any adopter using the >current reference CA would get support in migrating to whatever OS solution we >decide to support in the future? And if it were to become the Galicaster, I'm >looking at you, Teltek...
O > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: matterhorn-boun...@opencastproject.org [mailto:matterhorn- > boun...@opencastproject.org] Im Auftrag von Ruediger Rolf > Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2013 16:15 > An: Opencast Matterhorn; Matterhorn Users > Betreff: [Opencast Matterhorn] Discontinue the Capture Agent? #proposal > > Hi list, > > I started this discussion on the unconference in San Diego last week and I > want to > bring this to the Community now. > > I would like to propose that we discontinue the development of the reference > Capture Agent after 1.4. > > We would not delete the current code from the repo or something like this, > bit we > will not really maintain the code in the future so that it will be outdated > in the near > future, because hardware that we recommend is no longer available or > interfaces > and drivers that we use will change. We will need to create a > mockup-capture-agent > (a simpler version of the current demo capture agent) that will prove that > our API is > still working and can be used for integration tests. This Mockup-Agent will > probably have no 3rd-party dependencies like the current agents so that it > can be > installed on any test server. > > Why should we discontinue the development? > Currently only 2 developers are working part time on the CA. We hardly manage > to > catch up on know bugs. We hardly manage to keep the install scrips up to date > with changes that come with new Ubuntu versions. We have not really improved > the > functionality of capture agent in the last releases. A good example for that > is that > the CA user interface still lacks any usability. On the other hand we have to > compete with other open source implementations of capture agents and the > commercial vendors, which improve their software much more rapidly. Especially > Teltek's Galicaster is an valid alternative to the reference Capture Agent as > it has > an open source license too and works on very similar hardware. Most adopters > that currently use the reference CA could switch to Galicaster. > By switching away from our own implementation we as a community could open > up the discussion with the Capture Agent developers about improvements of the > Ingest-API. With our own CA we would need to write an reference > implementation. > Now we would only need to update the Mockup-Agent to test the interface. > > If we would encounter in the future that we rely too much on commercial > partners > with their Capture Agents we could always use our old code again and update it > again. > > I would like to know what the community thinks about this proposal? > > Thanks > Rüdiger > > -- > > ________________________________________________ > Rüdiger Rolf, M.A. > Universität Osnabrück - Zentrum virtUOS > Heger-Tor-Wall 12, 49069 Osnabrück > Telefon: (0541) 969-6511 - Fax: (0541) 969-16511 > E-Mail: rr...@uni-osnabrueck.de > Internet: www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > Matterhorn@opencastproject.org > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list Matterhorn@opencastproject.org http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org _______________________________________________
