As a massive outsider to this project, I joined the ML in the hope to
learn more about the bloodhound project, only to be met with the
possible archiving of it.
Please don't get the wrong impression, I enjoy python and open source
as much as i enjoy contributing to OSS.
I would like to raise a few troublesome concerns I would have with
this project (again, this is one person):
1) Trac - the foundation of BH is still on Py2 - with basically 2 yrs
until py2 is declared EOL (2020) .
2) Trac Version - Trac is on version 1.2(stable), afaik, BH has only
been tested on Trac 0.11 - 0.13
So, i guess my day 1 question would be how would you get Bloodhound to
py3 in ~2yrs, especially if the platform its based on isnt there yet?
Would a fork (As Olemis suggested) solve that? I doubt it.
And, again, nothing against ASF here, but I'm sure migrating the
source to GH could attract more involvement from more developers.
That said, https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound doesn't point anywhere
right now, so all the wiki links are dead anyhow.
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Olemis Lang <olemis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/17, Jason Morgan <jason.morgan@pavegen.co.uk> wrote:
>> I would argue there is a more fundamental problem with this project.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> It looks like an abandoned project before you start. It has done for quite
>> a few years.
>>
>> This is why there is little traction from both potential developers and
>> users.
>
> +1
>
>>
>> I would propose a fork. Move it away from Apache. Create a new home page
>> and new working dist with decent user documentation. Abandon all the WIP
>> cruft. Start over.
>>
>
> (Except for a few minor and irrelevant aspects) I do not think the
> Apache Way is blocking us from moving forward . It's the inner details
> of the current architecture (Gary, the other founders of the project
> and the newer contributors might have a relatively good idea of what I
> am talking about) that did not allow us to move forward beyond a
> certain point . The most evident proof of this is that the public
> issue tracker at b.a.o is not running yet the latest multi-product
> architecture .
>
> I do believe in moving forward with the project following the Apache
> Way , even if I keep developing my own private fork for other reasons
> . I already sketched a roadmap in my previous message . The first step
> to get out of this situation , IMO , should be to start working on a
> new BEP for a new architecture built on top of BEP-0003 but , at the
> same time , fixing the problems blocking us from achieving stable
> deployments.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Olemis - @olemislc
>
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