On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro <zmy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joseph's parenthetical comment basically sums up the reason I have been > doing things the way I have. I would love to see some larger wave > organization take over the Wave Extensions Gallery ( > github.com/zmyaro/wave-extensions-gallery | waveextensions.org), but I do > not want to make it part of Apache Wave because that would mean giving up > git and GitHub's wiki and issue tracking tools. If Apache had as nice and > cohesive a system for such things as GitHub, Bitbucket, or Google Code, I > would definitely be more open to the idea of handing the project over, but > right now the tools feel rather ugly and disconnected.
this is history! ASF meanwhile supports git (not only by mirror). https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ http://git.apache.org/ We have Confluence and Jira, which is very nice too. You are welcome here :-) > That said, I would definitely contribute to other Apache Wave projects when > I can. I have not contributed to WIAB because I am not very familiar with > GWT, but if other projects were added (or if I learned more GWT :P) I would > definitely contribute where I could. > > > —Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro > > > On 12 June 2013 19:14, Joseph Gentle <jose...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I love it. Well said, and I totally agree. (Although I still like >> having ShareJS on Github.) >> >> -J >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Michael MacFadden >> <michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Wavers, >> > >> > It has become clear that there a MANY more people are interested in Wave >> > that we had previously thought. There recent explosion of interest is >> > fantastic. However, what I am seeing is that the wave community is >> > splintered and fragmented. There are a lot of people who have been doing >> > development work on wave related concepts like OT, federation, etc >> outside >> > of Apache Wave. Maybe they thought they were not welcome. Maybe they >> > though the existing code base was headed in the wrong direction. Maybe >> they >> > thought we would not be open to their project ideas. Who knows. >> Whatever >> > the reason, there have been many side projects all over the web some how >> > related to wave. Either inspired by wave, or developed to explore some >> > alternative to the way wave did something. >> > >> > I would like to try to unite these efforts in to one umbrella project. >> From >> > a code base perspective, we can create multiple folders in our repository >> > were proof of concepts and side projects can exist along side WiaB. If >> this >> > drives activity and interest to Apache Wave, then fantastic. Sure we >> would >> > love to have 20 people jump in and help us with the current issues >> directly >> > in WiaB. If people want to do that, by all means PLEASE HELP. But if >> that >> > is not what you are interested in, but you ARE interested in some other >> path >> > forward, please join our community. Please use Apache Wave as your home >> to >> > develop Wave technology. Be it OT, Clients, Protocols, what have you. >> > There is nothing that says the WiaB in its current form has to be the >> only >> > product produced by this project. We could have a generic core OT >> Engine / >> > API that powers wave. We could have the core server that leverages this >> > engine. We could have multiple clients, etc. >> > >> > I specifically named the project Apache Wave and not Apache Wave in a >> Box, >> > because the vision was the eventually this project would become the home >> of >> > a whole ecosystem of wave related things. >> > >> > If there is one current truth, it is that none of our groups has been >> > independently successful in developing and distributing a widely used and >> > adopted OT based collaboration project. I think together we can be more >> > successful than apart. Yes that means we have to hash things out on the >> > mailing list occasionally, but I think we are all open to input from >> anyone. >> > If we can create a place for side projects, then perhaps people will be >> more >> > free to bring their ideas and efforts here. >> > >> > To that end, I would put a call out to people who are currently working >> on >> > related projects to officially joint the Apache Wave community. >> Contribute >> > some code, whatever that may be. Help start a proof of concept for an OT >> > Engine, work on the client server protocol, whatever you want to do, >> come do >> > it here. >> > >> > Together we can keep our collective momentum. Become a committer here. >> We >> > need you. >> > >> > Sincere Regards, >> > >> > ~Michael >> > >> > >> -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
