Re: [stomp-dev] Stomp Future

[Rob Davies <ra...@gmail.com>]

Great! - I'd be very happy to see STOMP moving home!

On 21 Jul 2009, at 15:19, Dejan Bosanac wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While thinking about the future of Stomp protocol, we concluded that  
> the best place for future maintenance of the specification is under  
> umbrella of ActiveMQ project. There are a couple reasons for this,  
> but it basically boils down to two facts:
>
>     * Apache infrastructure is much better suited for this task than  
> the one currently used at Codehaus
>     * Most of the Stomp contributors are also ActiveMQ committers,  
> so this transition feels natural in this respect.
>
> As a starting point, we created an ActiveMQ sub-project (http://activemq.apache.org/stomp/ 
> ) which will be the home of the all future work on the protocol. At  
> the moment, we only ported information related to Stomp version 1.0  
> (specification and related articles) to this new project. Soon,  
> we’ll start working on protocol specification version 1.1, using the  
> current idea pool (http://stomp.codehaus.org/Stomp+v1.1+Ideas) as a  
> base.
>
> The whole documentation for the project is created using Webgen, so  
> it consists of Markdown pages stored in an appropriate SVN  
> repository (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/stomp/trunk/)  
> (for example, Stomp 1.0 specification is located in here - https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/stomp/trunk/webgen/src/stomp10/specification.page) 
> . You can also use Jira (https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/STOMP 
> ) to file any tasks, issues and requests for the specification  
> related work. So please feel free to contribute :)
>
> This project is not meant to contain any Stomp clients, but only to  
> be a home of the Stomp specification. This doesn’t mean that we  
> don’t think about how to provide the better infrastructure to Stomp  
> clients developers. But that is the topic for another discussion and  
> you can expect more news regarding that soon.
>
> P.S. There's also an online version of this text (http://www.nighttale.net/stomp/stomp-future.html 
> ), if you need to reference it for any reason.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Dejan Bosanac
>
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