| Re: [technology-pmc] Gyrex 1.0 Release |
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Adoption is important, and it's good to see that there are
commercial adopters and the start of an eco-system. I understand the
"chicken and egg" problem. We've seen this sort of thing before; RAP
comes to mind. Given that the APIs are stable, and that the project
appears to be running in accordance with the EDP, I'm in support of
graduating the project. +1 from me. Having said that, I'd like to see the project continue to work on increasing diversity and growing the community. Wayne On 01/05/2012 02:20 AM, Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote: Happy New Year Technology PMC, The Gyrex project is aiming for a 1.0 release in March. Thus I'm asking for your opinions on a necessary graduation review. I think the hardest part in the graduation review is convincing you that we have an active user base given that there is nearly zero feedback in the forums/newsgroups. I understand that we aren't a traditional tooling project that attracts a large user base. Gyrex is used mostly as the foundation/infrastructure in larger projects. We have three commercial adopters today using this technology. They all have support contracts with us and mainly communicate using our support infrastructure in their preferred language. Thus, it's mainly on us to identify Gyrex issues and report them using Bugzilla. We also have a few Bugzillas open to give the community an opportunity to work on additional contributions. We did two successful releases (0.10 and 0.11) in the past six months and had ~200 downloads not including the p2 target platform provisions. Our website had 241 unique visitors last month (December 2011). We are currently preparing some additional documentation and screen-casts that we intend to publish together with our 1.0 release. We are also facing kind of a chicken-and-egg problem marketing wise. We got negative feedback recently from a potential commercial adopter about our pre-1.0 status. Our code base is well post-1.0 and I did a couple of demos to explain that. Given that we have a stable API that is in use today I think a 1.0 release will also help in driving new adoptions and new users to the project. -Gunnar --
Wayne Beaton The Eclipse Foundation Twitter: @waynebeaton   |