[workflow] new contributor

[Michael Colbert <mb...@yahoo.com>]

I'd like to volunteer to contribute time and code to the commons-workflow
project.  I've written two workflow engines in the past two years for two
seperate organizations and have some new ideas I would like to explore in
open-source.  I see the commons-workflow project as a good starting point.

Having said that, I'd like to get a feel for the commons-workflow community. 
Who is using it?  What are you using it for?  What do you see are the strengths
and weaknesses of the project as it stands?  How can I help?

Thanks,
Mike Colbert
mbcolbert@yahoo.com




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Re: [workflow] new contributor

[Mike Colbert <mi...@mikecolbert.com>]

Mike Colbert wrote:

> Would like to start looking into the possibilities of a more powerful 
> process modeling/scripting mechanism.  Something that can express more 
> complex behavior, e.g. conditional transitions, composite activities, 
> error handling, data-passing, etc.
>
> Mike Colbert


Actually, after looking through the core package documentation, looks 
quite expressive already.  Will have to play around with some more 
complicated scenarios.

Mike



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Re: [workflow] new contributor

[Mike Colbert <mi...@mikecolbert.com>]

Craig McClanahan wrote:

> Michael Colbert wrote:
>
>> I'd like to volunteer to contribute time and code to the 
>> commons-workflow
>> project.  I've written two workflow engines in the past two years for 
>> two
>> seperate organizations and have some new ideas I would like to 
>> explore in
>> open-source.  I see the commons-workflow project as a good starting 
>> point.
>>
>>  
>>
> Cool.  Welcome!


Thanks, Craig.


>
>> Having said that, I'd like to get a feel for the commons-workflow 
>> community. Who is using it?  What are you using it for?  What do you 
>> see are the strengths
>> and weaknesses of the project as it stands?  How can I help?
>>
>>  
>>
> I'm going to make Colin happy :-), and go through his outstanding 
> patches this evening (Pacific time in the US), applying what I can.  
> I'll try to do the same for yours -- expeditiously as possible, at 
> least until my next big time crunch happens.


Sounds like a plan.  I'm looking forward to helping out.  I've been 
going through the archives, reading comments and suggestions.  Would 
like to start looking into the possibilities of a more powerful process 
modeling/scripting mechanism.  Something that can express more complex 
behavior, e.g. conditional transitions, composite activities, error 
handling, data-passing, etc.

Mike Colbert




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Re: [workflow] new contributor

[Craig McClanahan <cr...@apache.org>]

Michael Colbert wrote:

>I'd like to volunteer to contribute time and code to the commons-workflow
>project.  I've written two workflow engines in the past two years for two
>seperate organizations and have some new ideas I would like to explore in
>open-source.  I see the commons-workflow project as a good starting point.
>
>  
>
Cool.  Welcome!

>Having said that, I'd like to get a feel for the commons-workflow community. 
>Who is using it?  What are you using it for?  What do you see are the strengths
>and weaknesses of the project as it stands?  How can I help?
>
>  
>
I'm going to make Colin happy :-), and go through his outstanding 
patches this evening (Pacific time in the US), applying what I can.  
I'll try to do the same for yours -- expeditiously as possible, at least 
until my next big time crunch happens.

>Thanks,
>Mike Colbert
>mbcolbert@yahoo.com
>
>  
>
Craig


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