Project status and current health

[sandy pittendrigh <sa...@cns.montana.edu>]

I'm curious about the current status of the Xindice project:
I don't see much activity on mail lists  (users or dev) for
almost a month now.

Is Xindice still an active project?
Or should Xindice users start to consider porting their
codes to other alternatives (Exist, dbXML,  Oracle, Ipedo, etc?)

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Re: Project status and current health

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@webweaving.org>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, sandy pittendrigh wrote:

> Our best developer (Todd Byrne) encountered an Xupdate bug
> a few weeks ago--that was a show stopper for us.  Todd submitted
> a patch--that no one at Xindice has had time to address yet.

> That leaves us holding what amounts to our own custom
> branch of the Xindice codes.  That too makes me a little nervous.
>
> Xindice is a great project. I hope for the best.

Xindece is owned by the Xindice community; of which you Sandy, and Todd
and all those others helping out are as much part as anyone else.

Though not ideal - it is not bad for a community to split/hand-off to one
group which maintains the older code and see a new group embark onto
something new. Either at the ASF or elsewhere.

And if you are very low on resources -and- you have developers giving you
good patches; consider adding a few committers quickly :-)

Dw

Re: Project status and current health

[sandy pittendrigh <sa...@cns.montana.edu>]

RE>  "I'm curious, why would you start porting?"

We're grateful for the great work (Xindice) that has already been done.
We've spent two years developing a (scientific data, domain specific) front
end to Xindice.  It makes us feel a little nervous to have all our eggs in
one (at least temporarily) stalled basket. 

Our best developer (Todd Byrne) encountered an Xupdate bug
a few weeks ago--that was a show stopper for us.  Todd submitted
a patch--that no one at Xindice has had time to address yet.
That leaves us holding what amounts to our own custom
branch of the Xindice codes.  That too makes me a little nervous.

Xindice is a great project. I hope for the best.


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Re: Project status and current health

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@reverycodes.com>]

sandy pittendrigh wrote:

> I'm curious about the current status of the Xindice project:
> I don't see much activity on mail lists  (users or dev) for
> almost a month now.
> 
> Is Xindice still an active project?

Xindice currently lacks developers with time to contribute to it, but it 
does not mean that it is dead.


> Or should Xindice users start to consider porting their
> codes to other alternatives (Exist, dbXML,  Oracle, Ipedo, etc?)

I'm curious, why would you start porting?

Vadim