Project status

[Luis Pablo Gallo <lp...@odeasrl.com.ar>]

   Hi, I'm a Java developer from Argentina and I use Torque in many 
projects. Since I don't see any new release of this framework since 
February 2008 I was wondering if it's still active or not. In case you 
don't know the project status, could you give me the contact of someone 
who does please?
    Thanks in advance,

       Luis Pablo

Re: Project status

[Thomas Vandahl <tv...@apache.org>]

Greg Monroe wrote:
> Of course, it helps to prod the sleeping bear occasionally ;)

... or to add contributions. This *will* wake him up. :-)

Bye, Thomas

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RE: Project status

[Greg Monroe <mo...@dukece.com>]

In addition to what Thomas said... 

You should note that Torque is at relatively stable  point of 
development based more or less on the original design 
view/methodology (with some major mods happening about version 
3.1...).  IMHO, the 3.3 release is at a point where the existing
design is close to the best it can get.  It's had extensive bug 
testing, is very stable, and meets a high percentage of what 
people want to use it for.  

A point in case, is the low number of bugs that have been 
reported since the 3.3 release. This is one reason for a low 
number of commits over the last period.  The developers are
still around.. just there have been no quick fixes needed.  

That said, Torque 4.0 features have been discussed on the 
Torque-Dev mailing list (see Threads starting around late Nov
2006 and documented in the Torque Wiki (Thanks Thomas F!).  
The vision for these is a fairly major redesign to the under
side of Torque. 

As Thomas has said, folks are busy.. and getting started on 
a major redesign means that people have to find a large 
chunk of time and energy to devote to this.  Even then it will
be long process because we are talking about major changes and
Torque is used in ways that were never imagined.  This is sure
to lead to a large set of issues and problems that will have to
be hashed out, re-thought, re-coded, and the like.

Of course, it helps to prod the sleeping bear occasionally ;)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Fischer [mailto:fischer@seitenbau.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:51 AM
> To: Apache Torque Users List
> Subject: RE: Project status
> 
> >    Hi, I'm a Java developer from Argentina and I use Torque in many
> > projects. Since I don't see any new release of this framework since
> > February 2008 I was wondering if it's still active or not.
> 
> Since the release of 3.3 the main developers had a lot ow other work and
> were not able to put much work into Torque. But they are still with the
> project, if you look at the mailing list posts.
> My personal guess is that  Torque will become more active again next
> year.
> 
>         Thomas
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RE: Project status

[Thomas Fischer <fi...@seitenbau.net>]

>    Hi, I'm a Java developer from Argentina and I use Torque in many 
> projects. Since I don't see any new release of this framework since 
> February 2008 I was wondering if it's still active or not. 

Since the release of 3.3 the main developers had a lot ow other work and 
were not able to put much work into Torque. But they are still with the 
project, if you look at the mailing list posts.
My personal guess is that  Torque will become more active again next year.

        Thomas