On 02/01/16 15:49, Jason Morris wrote: > Hi Dave, > >>> I assume the tutorial and reference would be publicly visible. > Absolutely. I'd be looking to write a "and-it-just-works" set of instructions.
Great, do you have a publicly accessible place you wish to author content in? Please feel free to contact me off list if you prefer (might be better). >>> I'd be more interested in helping with a reference guide for the Payara fork > Not familiar with that. I'll have to do some homework. There is an FAQ here on the relationship: http://www.payara.fish/payara_faq See also: http://blog.eisele.net/2013/11/rip-glassfish-thanks-for-all-fish.html > > BTW -- Doesn't it seem that no sooner do you get comfortably competent using > some IT technology its developers/administrators decide to "fork" everything > up? I for one am tired of getting forked ;-) The most egregious offender is > Google -- the company of Perpetual Beta. Every time they get some code to > beta, it stays there until some manager decides that its roadmap is no longer > part of the strategic vision (or something). > > I guess that is the fate of all software: get forked or die. My experience has almost uniformly been with /vendors/ deciding to pull resources and/or support for a product, leading to a code fork being the only practical path to ensure a future for the product. OpenOffice -> LibreOffice, OpenSolaris/Solaris -> illumos, SugarCRM -> SuiteCRM, OpenDS -> OpenDJ, and on and on. GlassFish is a salient example, and we're about to see the same thing with Mozilla's Thunderbird. If anything it's the power of open source at work. Google are a different kettle of fish – they have an appalling record of short product lifespans, but they tend not to open source code when they shut down products which don't help them force advertising down folks' throats (and products more often than not are not open source to begin with, so, no fork). (I agree with the perpetual beta viewpoint though – one of many reasons I avoid using or recommending their products on a professional basis.) Cheers, Dave -- Dave Koelmeyer http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz GPG Key ID: 0x238BFF87
