Le 19 janv. 06 à 02:57, Noel J. Bergman a écrit :
> Raphaël Luta wrote:
>
>> I thought it would be safe to assume that Zimbra collaboration suite
>> uses the AjaxTk. If it doesn't then I'm even more worried about that
>> codebase ;)
>
> Why?
>
Because then I would have to reconsider the "orphaned product" statement
of the proposal. Anyway, as far as I can tell froom looking at Zimbra
collaborative suite, it does depend on the ajaxTk.
>>>> An established codebase is *much* more difficult to restructure
>>>> than starting from scratch.
>>> Apache SOAP -> Apache Axis
>>> Tomcat 3 -> Tomcat 4 -> Tomcat 5 -> Tomcat 5.5 ...
>>> Jetspeed 1 -> Jetspeed 2 ;-)
>
>> My point exactly !
>
>> Most of these transitions have not been a smooth ride even though
>> they are successful: it takes time and a resilient community to
>> manage these.
>
> No one said that doing it was necessarily easy, but isn't creating
> resilient, healthy, communities a major part of our purpose?
>
We're doing loops here. My point in this thread is that initial code
quality does matter in a code grant incubation because it is often
burdened by backward compatibility with existing applications and
thus major restructure may require a revolution which can hardly
safely happen in the early months of the project open-source life.
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Raphaël Luta - raphael@apache.org
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