Why not using Lenya

[Stéphane Croisier <sc...@jahia.com>]

Just a basic question:

Why not using Apache Lenya (which is also migrating to Jackrabbit) rather 
than incubating still another CMS framework/project on top of Apache and 
spliting the community effort?

Cheers,
Stéphane

P.S: Sorry if the question was already asked. I tried the mailing list 
archive but in a global text file in a tar.gz, I must say this is is not 
really readable easily... And I think it is not mentionned on the web page 
of this project or at least on the top pages (and this question with 
certainly be asked several times so perhaps a good idea to explain why 
graffito needs to exist despite th existance of Lenya in the ASF).

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Re: Why not using Lenya

[David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>]

Stéphane Croisier wrote:
> Just a basic question:
> 
> Why not using Apache Lenya (which is also migrating to Jackrabbit) 
> rather than incubating still another CMS framework/project on top of 
> Apache and spliting the community effort?
> 
> Cheers,
> Stéphane
>
Hi Stéphane ,

When we started this project we looked at Cocoon and didn't find it 
satifactorily to our needs:

- easy, smart, standard integration with portals (portlets) + CMS
- a simple URI space for heterogeneous integration of CMS into a portal 
space
- not tied any of the older Jakarta projects such as Turbine or Cocoon

Our goal is to develop Graffito portlet applications such as CMS 
browsers, editors, in an open way and provide these portlets to the 
developers in the community who need to develop CMS/portal solutions. We 
found this to be a good area to expand the Apache Portals community.

Also, Christophe and I have been working with this project for a long 
time now. When we started, Lenya did not exist at Apache.

Hope that helps explain what we are doing here and our goal is not to 
split the community at all and we welcome you to discuss this further 
and maybe we can find some common ground

Regards,

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