| 2009 April JSPWiki Incubator status report |
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| JSPWiki has been incubating since September 2007. |
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| JSPWiki is a JSP-based wiki program. |
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| During the past three months, the JSPWiki community has still continued to increase. |
| The developer list now has 82 names, a modest increase from 72 the last time, and the |
| user list is now 167 people strong, ten more than three months ago. |
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| The big push now is for our graduation. The biggest hurdles have been overcome: |
| The packages are now called "org.apache.wiki" [please see Tomcat bug |
| https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46462 to see why we couldn't |
| use org.apache.jspwiki]; JSPWiki has switched to the Stripes framework; and we |
| have switched to use the JCR backend (e.g. Apache Jackrabbit). |
| As a result of a vote, the support for webdav has been dropped. |
| The fairly old jsonrpc has been replaced by jabsorb. |
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| However, the trunk is in a fairly immature state. For example, it is not deployable |
| at all, which means that nobody can yet use the trunk for its intended purpose. |
| Our main concern is to stabilize the code to some state where it would be |
| actually usable before making a release. |
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| The biggest slowdown is simply the fact that JSPWiki is (still) a completely volunteer- |
| developed project, with nobody actually receiving any money for its development. While |
| this is great in the sense that development is relatively easy to join, and communities |
| are not overrun by corporate requirements, it also means that the committer's priorities |
| often conflict with the object of speedy graduation. |
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| We are planning to have an "alpha" grade release as our first official Apache release, |
| after which we should be fairly ready for graduation. |