IBM's latest gift to the community

IBM's latest gift to the community

Posted Mar 3, 2005 20:32 UTC (Thu) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535)
In reply to: IBM's latest gift to the community by simon_kitching
Parent article: IBM's latest gift to the community

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.

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