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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:03:46 +0100
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Subject: Cocoon PMC report, November 2004
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Hi board,

Here's the November 2004 report for the Cocoon project.


Community:
- The 3rd Cocoon GetTogether, yearly meeting of Cocoon users and 
developers, whas held as is usual now in Gent (Belgium) in early 
october. That was again a great success with 140 people coming from 17 
countries, an active hackaton and interesting presentations.

- There was a relative traffic slowdown on the dev list during spring 
and summer, mostly because people were very busy. After the GetTogether, 
the activity on the dev list raised back to its usual traffic and lots 
of interesting discussions are happening.

- We have two new committers, Ralph Goers and Leszek Gawron.

- Cocoon 2.1.6, is planned to be released next week, this is a 
maintainance release while development continues on the 2.2 branch.

- Lenya is no more a in the Cocoon TLP as it successfully exited 
incubation and moved to top-level.

- The death of Avalon and the fact that our component manager is 
considered as deprecated by the Excalibur project led us to fork it. 
These are only 15 source files, which allow us to master the foundations 
on which Cocoon is built.

Legal:
The legal issues we had with the Rhino fork supporting continuations are 
about to be solved, as the Mozilla Rhino team has added continuation 
support in the official Rhino, and Cocoon will therefore abandon the 
fork in favor in the official distribution.


Sylvain

PS: cc'ing pmc@ for archival and dev@ to keep the community informed

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Sylvain Wallez                                  Anyware Technologies
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