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IBM's latest gift to the community
IBM's latest gift to the community
Posted Mar 3, 2005 4:00 UTC (Thu) by simon_kitching (guest, #4874)Parent article: IBM's latest gift to the community
The list of projects that IBM has moved to sourceforge can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=449291
On a separate note, I interpret the comment quoted in the LWN article somewhat differently:
"not a bad run for a project that has been pretty much abandoned"
seems to me to refer to the dw/oss *site* rather than the software projects maintained at that site. IBM clearly doesn't want to bother running a sourceforge-like infrastructure, and fair enough when the sourceforge staff do such a good job of it already.
I agree, however, that the press release was very misleading: these projects were clearly *already* open-source; they have just changed venue from the dw/oss site to the sourceforge site. I would guess that some junior IBM PR person just totally misunderstood what they were told and screwed up the announcement, rather than IBM intentionally misleading.
Whether any of the projects moved to sourceforge are actually useful is still to be seen...
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IBM's latest gift to the community
Posted Mar 3, 2005 20:32 UTC (Thu) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535) [Link]
On a separate note, I interpret the comment quoted in the LWN article somewhat differently: "not a bad run for a project that has been pretty much abandoned" seems to me to refer to the dw/oss *site* rather than the software projects maintained at that site.
I hung out on the Jikes lists for a while, and the quote clearly applies Jikes (and I think if you reread the story, you'll find that this interpretation fits the context better). If Java had remained static at version 1, Jikes might have remained relevant. As it was, Jikes lacked the man-power to keep up--even some uses of inner classes gave it trouble. I think only one IBM employee was involved on a regular, but not full-time, basis. IBM definitely abandoned Jikes before it had a sufficient development community of its own.
However, you're right that the quote also applies to dw. There were many complaints about the site, and the IBM guy was always trying to get them fixed, but little happened.