Re: Follow up on closure
Re: Follow up on closure
- Subject: Re: Follow up on closure
- From: Ken Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 10:44:57 -0400
Hugi,
I don’t think this had anything to do with you. I would not have pushed the buttons you pushed - but so be it. Me, I prefer to let sleeping dragons… sleep :)
Pascal laid out the issues that brought him to his conclusion:
- Less participation in WOnder
- Less attendance at WOWODC
- The math of 57% for new, and 32% for maintenance, but to me, that means 89% are still active! I call this good!
Personally, I don’t think these changes warrant shutting things down - but clearly Pascal has had enough, and we all need to pick up the flag he has carried for so long and so well.
As Pascal has said the last time we were going to shut down, I’m guessing it would be easier for someone in Canada to take over the association, but if there’s no takers, I’m happy to help coordinate the migration to a US based entity.
Ken
> On May 12, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I feel rather bad and somewhat responsible for everything that’s going on these days. I had no idea that a phonecall from Apple would result in this.
>
> I'm still using WO actively in numerous old and new projects, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Being an opensource nut I’ve made numerous attempts at “escaping” WO, but that sweet, sweet statefulness, lovely API, KVC and WOLips just keeps dragging me back in.
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> We need to find a way forward.
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> - hugi
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>> On 12. maí 2016, at 14:14, Michael Kondratov <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Pascal,
>> There are also people like us that use WO for internal projects. I have not been able to find any other platform that would warrant a move. It was pretty clear to me that Apple discontinued WO good 15 years ago. Is it really possible that only 50 people or so in the world that still use WebObjects? Is there something that is better? (Or 99.999999..% use inferior tools?)
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>> Michael
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On May 12, 2016, at 6:31 AM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> It seems the majority wants to keep the WOCommunity server alive until WOWODC, so let's do that.
>>>
>>> Now, the reasons of why I wanted to shutdown everything:
>>>
>>> - The results of the surveys are not positive. Only 57% of respondents use WO for new and current projects, 32% only for maintenance, the rest is moving away or already done so.
>>>
>>> - Based on this, I expect to lose 10-12 WOWODC guests, so I calculated that we needed 45 guests and made the arrangements based on that number. Sadly, we are only 33 so far, and usually at that timeframe, we only get 4-5 registrations. Hence the 6200$ deficit (now reduced to about 2100$).
>>>
>>> - Contributions to Wonder is next to nothing for the last year.
>>>
>>> - I was thinking that having a session about using Cayenne with WO would be a great way to modernize WO, and hence generate interest, and looks like I was wrong, or else we would have more people at WOWODC, not less.
>>>
>>> - At WOWODC 2014, we asked if people were using the master branch of Wonder, and the vast majority said they are using their own fork. So why should we keep Jenkins if most of you use their own forks?
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