we are evaluating Wookie as a widget engine

[Vicario Loris <Lo...@valueteam.com>]

Hi all,

as an IT consulting company, we are evaluating Wookie as a widget engine
for a project we have.

 

Before taking a decision we have a few queries we'd like to rise:

 

1.       Is there a roadmap that bring Wookie to become a product?

2.       Can we count on an effective and reactive support while Wookie
is in its incubator phase?

3.       Are you aware of other companies  that used Wookie in their
project? Can we have some referencies?

 

 

Best regards,

Loris

 

 

 

Loris Vicario 

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Re: we are evaluating Wookie as a widget engine

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

On 23/04/2010 09:10, Scott Wilson wrote:

>> 2.       Can we count on an effective and reactive support while
>> Wookie is in its incubator phase?
>
> The most accurate indicator of this is to look back over the list
> archive to see how implementers have been supported to date:
>
> http://markmail.org/search/?q=list:wookie
>
> In general I'd say as a community we've been pretty quick at
> responding to questions and providing fixes and workarounds for
> issues.

However, I would say that you cannot *count* on "effective reactive 
support" unless you can find someone to pay to give you that level of 
support. Payment around here is through in-kind support of the project.

The golden rule of engaging with any open source project, as you 
probably know, is to give back as much as you can. Any community member 
who only makes demands will find that "effective reactive support" is 
thin on the ground. Any community member who gives back in any way they 
can (testing, docs, patches, widgets etc.) is likely to generate 
significant amounts of good will and thus effective and reactive support.


Ross

Re: we are evaluating Wookie as a widget engine

[Scott Wilson <sc...@gmail.com>]

On 22 Apr 2010, at 11:19, Vicario Loris wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> as an IT consulting company, we are evaluating Wookie as a widget engine
> for a project we have.

Great!

> Before taking a decision we have a few queries we'd like to rise:
> 
> 1.       Is there a roadmap that bring Wookie to become a product?

There are two questions in here - one is to do with releases, the other with graduation.

To make a release, we need to remove any remaining GPL dependencies. These are Hibernate and its MySQL connector, and so we need to look at solutions such as OpenJPA, JDOm DataNucleus, EmpireDB etc.

To graduate, we need to have a viable community, which means enough committers from different organisations. 

I don't think either of these targets is far off.

> 
> 2.       Can we count on an effective and reactive support while Wookie
> is in its incubator phase?

The most accurate indicator of this is to look back over the list archive to see how implementers have been supported to date:

http://markmail.org/search/?q=list:wookie

In general I'd say as a community we've been pretty quick at responding to questions and providing fixes and workarounds for issues.

> 
> 3.       Are you aware of other companies  that used Wookie in their
> project? Can we have some referencies?

I'm starting work myself on two EU projects using Wookie, and these involve SAP, T-Systems, Huawei, Grupo Gesfor, and a number of universities and smaller companies. I'll share more information on the list about these when we do our official press releases. There have also been some questions on the list from companies using Wookie in various scenarios.


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> Loris
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