Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-24 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Ali, I don't know off any concrete event. But I know for sure it is possible. Basically, the project would need to find another set of mentors/champion is it needed to do with this incubation. I can imagine people may ask what is the difference from the previous incubation trial. A project can a

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-23 Thread Ali Lown
Christian, This seems to be the age-old Wave problem. Regarding your last comment, is there any precedent for a project leaving Apache and returning at future point - it does seem like a strange set of circumstances would be needed to trigger it? Ali On 23 March 2015 at 14:06, Christian Grobmei

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-23 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, if Wave moves out this list, Jira etc will be read only, but available. Same for the current source code. I agree with 1: in the end Apache is a strong brand and also shows that you can rely on a few things. However at this point we know the benefits of Apache, but can this project also fulf

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-18 Thread Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado
> Also, is there a general repository for all the contributions that have > been done so far from the Community? More than git: http://incubator.apache.org/wave/source-code.html maybe the reviews: https://reviews.apache.org/groups/wave/

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-18 Thread Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado
El 17/03/15 a las 18:41, Yuri Z escribió: > I agree that from the point of view of adding to the source/experimenting - > there's no advantage to staying with Apache. However, there are other > reasons. > 1. Doing a release will signify that the code base is free of legal issues > and thus encourag

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-18 Thread Upayavira
Yuri, Please know that there’d be no reason (as far as I am aware) that current data would be removed from JIRA/Wiki/etc. It would simply be marked read-only. I don’t know whether it’d be possible to add a forwarding message to the top of such pages. Upayavira On Tue, Mar 17, 2015, at 05:41 PM,

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-17 Thread Francesco Rossi
I concur with Yuri. One thing I would add is that a lot of knowledge is actually dispersed in this mailing list. It would not be bad to have a forum on which to engage at least a mainstream part of the community. Information would be searchable and more accessible. Also, is there a general rep

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-17 Thread Yuri Z
I agree that from the point of view of adding to the source/experimenting - there's no advantage to staying with Apache. However, there are other reasons. 1. Doing a release will signify that the code base is free of legal issues and thus encourage adoption of it by other parties, like wiab.pro, co

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-17 Thread Tobias Pfeiffer
Hi, I guess this is my first post to this list, even though I am subscribed for a year or so know and "following" the discussions here. The technology in Wave seems quite amazing to me (in particular the federation part, which hardly any commercial entity would add to their product out of a busin

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-17 Thread Alfredo Abambres
How can you retire something that is already dead? (*not kidding*) How many years more will the "Apache Wave" community keep lurking around instead of accepting the inevitable. Remove the elephant of the room, so new things can arise, elsewhere. Let Apache Wave burn once it for all... Let Wave mo

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-17 Thread Pablo Ojanguren
+1 to build a community is to help new developers start using the code, so better documentation is needed. Also to make clear the options and benefits for using Wave protocol. Answering Thomas, the client-server communication of my forked Wave is exactly the original, no changes in the protocol ar

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-16 Thread Francesco Rossi
Again as a new member of this list I surely act on a limited knowledge of prior situations. Still, I personally would not opt out of Apache. Several reasons: * building a community around Wave it's something you can take on both on Apache or on Github, and nothing would actually forbid us to

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-16 Thread Upayavira
To have demonstrated the community’s knowledge of how to make Apache compatible releases, and to have shown a stable and sustainable community. These are the most important, regarding Wave. As a community, we’ve sat back and waited - we’ve not really put any effort into attracting new talent. Whe

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-16 Thread Yuri Z
What are the technical requirements for graduation? On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:39 AM Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado wrote: > El 16/03/15 a las 08:35, Christian Grobmeier escribió: > > I would like to highlight that retirement does not mean end of life. > > There is a chance thing will get easier once o

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-16 Thread Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado
El 16/03/15 a las 08:35, Christian Grobmeier escribió: > I would like to highlight that retirement does not mean end of life. > There is a chance thing will get easier once on GitHub. Don't > forget, Apache is not only a great community, it's also a set of > rules, frameworks, restrictions and so

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-16 Thread Francesco Rossi
Noob question: what does it take to get it to graduate? On 3/16/2015 12:35 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: I would like to highlight that retirement does not mean end of life. There is a chance thing will get easier once on GitHub. Don't forget, Apache is not only a great community, it's also a s

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-16 Thread Christian Grobmeier
I would like to highlight that retirement does not mean end of life. There is a chance thing will get easier once on GitHub. Don't forget, Apache is not only a great community, it's also a set of rules, frameworks, restrictions and so on. It's do-able for a bigger community. But the Wave community

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Zachary Yaro
I think it is helpful that the wave standard be maintained by an established organization like the Apache. Yes, other tools with wave-y features, such as Google Docs, Rizzoma, and Slack, exist, but one of the most exciting promises of Wave was the open protocol for real-time communication and coll

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Wrobel
Thanks for that I'll look into both your Javascript API and your Android one. Is your communication between client and server just between your forked one or the "standard" wave server as well? If your approach is functional and everyone could agree to use it I feel a lot of progress could be made

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Pablo Ojanguren
I’d like to clarify a bit more my work during the last year and a half, as I think it can respond to the needs that are being raised in this thread: - Wave storage based on Database - Server-Client separation - Reduce code complexity or cover it up - No dependency to GWT / Ability to b

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Thomas Wrobel
"Splash is an old client but looked like it was quite split from the server architecture. What am I missing?" That its almost certainly not compatible with the current Wave sever code. Back when it was Google wave there was 4-5 clients, including prototype mobile ones. All died pretty soon after

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, Just because Wave would be potentially retired as an apache incubator project, does not mean that it is any more or less viable as an open source project. It just means that the project is not right for the apache software foundation. The code could be, will be, moved to a github reposit

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Pablo Ojanguren
I've been interested on Wave since almost one year, first as Kune contributor and lately in a separated project trying to reuse Wave technology in general way. I agree, the issue is the lack of separation between server and client and other components, the handicap to develop on top of Wave unless

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Francesco Rossi
Yuri suggested me in PVT some interesting open alternatives although I think they would still lack the options that Wave has. Just to name 2 of them: share.js rizzoma of course they have different functions, but at least they would share some Wave dna. the point is that coding on top of those s

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Bruce Hellstrom
The problem is technology keeps marching on while the wave project has remained mostly stagnant. I wanted to setup an internal wave server at our company and try to get it adopted as the company standard for our communications. I hate trying to manage email threads that get so long and disjoi

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread Francesco Rossi
Guys, I'm a newbie too and we are thinking of building an entire app over wave. It sounds really bat that the community is willing to give up. On 3/15/2015 3:14 AM, ujadatron wrote: It sounds bad. I'm a "few days newbee" in this mailing list. (I'm looking for a flexible open source collaborat

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-15 Thread ujadatron
It sounds bad. I'm a "few days newbee" in this mailing list. (I'm looking for a flexible open source collaboration framework). Do you suggest any of them? (if the Wave will retire) thanks in advance adatron 2015.03.14. 22:28 keltezéssel, James Keener írta: I was going to write almost exactly

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-14 Thread James Keener
I was going to write almost exactly the same email and decided not to. I found wave and wanted to use it, but it's dependence on the GWT and how intertwined the Client and Server were made it very difficult for me to understand and I moved to share.js because I could more easily comprehend it's inn

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-14 Thread Thomas Wrobel
I'll just sadly from my little lurker corner repeat what I have been saying for 3 years or so now; I wanted to work on a client, despite trying, I lacked the ability to understand the server side code. There was never a clear separation of client and sever that I feel would have allowed less skill

Re: Wave and Incubation

2015-03-14 Thread Fleeky Flanco
he's dead jim .. On Mar 14, 2015 9:56 PM, "Upayavira" wrote: > Wave has been incubating for some years now, and, unfortunately, has not > shown a level of growth that, in my opinion, would suggest that it is > likely to reach graduation from the Incubator. > > Unfortunately, I think it is time w