It's also necessary to fix some old bugs, like the extra left margin of the
Calendar component on Firefox and the Masthead image rendering issue on IE
6.
2008/10/30 John Yeary <johnyeary_at_gmail.com>
> I am OK with contributing time and effort to keep the project going, but
> there is a significant amount of code here. The expertise has been squarely
> in Sun's hands. I feel that we would need some knowledge transfer to make
> this happen.
>
> I am in agreement with Brett that Sun should do the right thing and finish
> 4.3 so that it works with Firefox 3.x. If they fail to do that, I will be
> more reluctant to use Sun's technologies in the future. We are a SUN OEM
> and partner, and this will hurt us.
>
> John
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Wei Chiang <chiang.wei_at_riihonlahti.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> > What would really be nice would be to finish and release the Woodstock
>> > 4.3 release so that our existing applications would be usable on
>> > Firefox 3.x. I think that is the least that Sun should do to help in
>> > this situation.
>> I echo it.
>>
>> > After that, maybe transitioning Woodstock to a complete community
>> > driven open source project would be beneficial. I know that I have a
>> > lot of time invested in projects using Woodstock and simply dropping
>> > in another component technology will not be trivial. Maybe there are
>> > enough of us here that would be willing to continue the development of
>> > the components package in a more open environment. I know I would be
>> > willing to contribute.
>> >
>> And I like this idea.
>>
>> Wei
>>
>> > Brett
>> >
>> > Mark Dey wrote:
>> >> Dear Woodstock users,
>> >>
>> >> On behalf of the teams involved, I apologize for the lack of
>> >> communication about about the future of Woodstock. The project teams
>> >> are struggling with the rather sudden reassignment of the
>> >> contributing members and are researching alternatives that can help
>> >> fill the gap in some way.
>> >>
>> >> The NetBeans level of contribution to future releases of Woodstock
>> >> has been suspended. The current version of Woodstock shipping as part
>> >> of VisualWeb in NetBeans 6.5 is version 4.2 and will continue to be
>> >> supported as it has in prior releases.
>> >>
>> >> Woodstock as a java.net open source project is still active to the
>> >> extent that community members are willing and able to contribute to
>> >> the further development and support of the technology.
>> >>
>> >> For NetBeans users, there will undoubtedly be a transition period as
>> >> we roll out the next generation of tools for JSF and UI components
>> >> for the web. A top priority is minimizing the impact to those who are
>> >> invested in the current technology. Hopefully, those who have been
>> >> following the latest Woodstock developments on java.net will find the
>> >> necessary level of community support to achieve their objectives.
>> >>
>> >> On behalf of the NetBeans team, we thank you for your understanding.
>> >>
>> >> - Mark Dey
>> >>
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