Re: [DRAFT] HiveMind Board Report - March 2009
Raffael Herzog <herzog <at> raffael.ch>
2009-03-05 14:15:16 GMT
Am Mittwoch, 4. März 2009 22.26:27 schrieb James Carman:
> Here's what I have:
>
> The HiveMind PMC has voted to move HiveMind into the "Attic." Henri
> Yandell has graciously offered to take care of presenting HiveMind to
> the Attic PMC and the board for inclusion in the Attic.
>
> James Carman
That's a pity ... but no surprise, it was only a question of time ... :(
To explain myself, as I am one who at least talked about contributing to
HiveMind, but never did:
What I am using and developing is an extension to HiveMind, a thing, that
would always be a separate project. HiveApp, is I uninspiredly call it, is
in production about 20 times, and that number is growing and will continue
to grow.
I needed some things to be done differently, but those were things that the
majority of "plain HiveMind" users wouldn't care about. This fact makes it
very difficult for me to start contributing to HiveMind itself, because I'm
often looking at things from a different perspective. Where some people
wanted new features, my focus would rather be to open HiveMind to provide
hooks at implementation-level, where I and possibly other people working at
low-level could hook into and extend HiveMind.
As an example: HiveMind is largely designed to run within a web application
server. The way I'm using it, I reverse things: Jetty is running within the
HiveMind container. Therefore, it's very difficult for me to contribute "my
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