<map:aggregate> considered harmful
Reminder to self: Bruno and I talked about aggregation versus cinclude inside Cocoon. Seems like a nice Cocoon best practics topic to elaborate on.
1:35:15 PM    comment []  

OSS as graveyard dumping?
Strange: apparently work has continued on dbXML v2, parallel to Apache Xindice which has been kind of languishing since it has been donated to Apache. Or at least that is what I can make up from Tom Bradford's homepage. Fork is a fact of life in an open source context, but it seems Xindice has been an example of graveyard dumping. It works, actually it works quite well, but I haven't seen major advances being made since it has been donated. Perhaps developing database engines is rocket science after all, i.e. not suited for OSS.
1:17:13 PM    comment []  

Waiting for DNS to propagate...
Phfew... After lenghty talk (the Unix alternative to IM!) sessions with Dan from AO, everything is more or less set up and waiting to be populated. Together with Dan, I moved the old outerthought.org website running a pre-2.0 version of Cocoon into a shiny new Tomcat 4.0.3 JVM and Cocoon 2.0.3, and prepared some other things so that we can now start to really build cocoondev.org.

Side-effect of this massive transition is being cut off from mail for some hours to a day. Hopefully I won't be de-listed from too many email lists because of some bounces that are bound to happen, and not too many get frustrated by our little mailing lists not being up right now.

All-in-all, everything went well, no nasty surprises and such. Kudos to Dan and Klay for that!
12:35:23 AM    comment []