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Cooee: Echo2 has been forked

Today news is the announcement of Karora

Karora is an open source group developing frameworks for Web 2.0 application delivery.

Karora is the natural consequence of the way Echo2 has been managed by Nextapp until today. One of the last question have been asked in a talk was “Is the development open?” and my answer was “No, it is not”.

The community reacted, as it should have done months ago, and Karora is the very first “practical” reaction.

The Karora group has released three different projects:

  • Cooee - A fork of the current Echo2 code including Extras and EchoPointNG
  • Orana - An implementation of the Eclipse JFace library using Cooee
  • Moomba - An implementation of the Eclipse Workbench (including OSGI and Spring support) for Cooee.

Karora aims is to publicly develop Echo2 and related projects AND to give the community what it has kept on asking for a long time

  • bug tracking
  • a sandbox for new interesting components that need some incubating period

I’ve asked for a bug tracker for a loooong time: lots of promises, but no bug tracker. I’ve even set up one on my own, asking Tod to check it out if it would have fit for Echo2, but received no answers.

But the most important part of Karora (Cooee in particular) is the availability of a sandbox, so finally every component sent into that messy Echo2 forum can now find home and eventually incubate and mature with the contributions of the community.

Once more, the bazaar seems to overtake the cathedral.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 at 1:04 am and is filed under Echo, Software Development, Java. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Cooee: Echo2 has been forked”

  1. Zafiris P. Says:
    June 26th, 2007 at 10:10 am

    The downside of it is that the Echo2 community will be more or less split between the “original” Echo2 and its offspring. That can only hurt the project and its future…

  2. Federico Fissore Says:
    June 29th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    It depends: Echo2 has just gained its own bug tracker and it required loooooots of emails/private messages to Tod (some of them are mine)
    Cooee presents itself as a community with the goal of improving, solving Tod’s lack of presence.
    If Echo2 will keep on being a “second choice” tool because of its small community (because of Tod), Cooee may launch it thanks to their openness.
    But Cooee must come out with some added value, which I think it will do, if they begin using external js files as they will to do
    http://www.karora.org/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=23

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