[jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?

[Frank Cohen]

Hey Jason: Thanks for your contribution of JDOM. I find it very useful  
in my work with Web Services. I very much appreciate your efforts.

The plan you put makes sense to me. When you post the list of actions  
I'll look to see if I can volunteer some code/patches.

Once 1.0 is done then let's talk about me being lead on the JCP process.

-Frank


On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Jason Hunter wrote:

> I could write a long paper on the lifecycle of JDOM and probably will
> someday.  The short summary appropos to your concerns is that after I
> went self employed a little over a year ago, my free time dried up.  I
> offered JDOM stewardship to a few individuals, but they declined.
> Laurent and Brad are still energetic and great coders and have fixed  
> any
> bugs as they've appeared, but the project's been going without a strong
> rudder.  I realize we need to get to a 1.0 and have been trying to
> arrange my schedule to help lead that.  I think as part of that we'll
> drop some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas and just concentrate on the last
> bit of spit and polish.  Finalize everything so people can rely on it
> and be happy.
>
> Here's my plan:
> 1) I'll propose a new TODO.txt based on what's there now and what's
>    flagged in my inbox
> 2) We'll solicit feedback for anything else that needs to be in 1.0
> 3) We'll divide the items into well-defined, concrete actions
> 4) People can volunteer to perform the actions
> 5) When all actions are done we'll manage the 1.0 release
>
> As far as the JCP goes, I think it's more important with limited
> resources to get a 1.0 software release out.  To push JDOM through the
> JCP process would require a volunteer to lead it.
>
> -jh-
>
>> I have been using JDOM for some time, and I have noticed the following
>> problems:
>>
>> 1.  There seems to be no desire to have a new release or even talk
>> about it.
>> 2.  There hasn't been any update to the web site in a year.
>> 3.  Very few messages are posted to this list.
>>
>> I enjoy using JDOM, if fact my project rely heavily on it.
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