Re: [xwiki-devs] GSoC 2012

Hi Thomas, I am very happy to here that you like my approach.Thanks. I was discouraged to do approach 1 not only because it would take a bit more time and effort. It was mainly because if I am doing such a framework future developers will be depending on my framework, so if I do a, say not that good job I will be making there time rough with a bad base framework. The only workaround I see is we must talk with some experienced architects in the community and come up with a good and salable base framework that provides simple and intuitive APIs so that the usage of the framework will have a short learning curve. In my opinion it does not take much effort to start making a fully functional complex API.The case is the early developers that move in to develop the framework will do a good job but later the framework will become complex and they will be doing workarounds to present more functionality from the framework making architecture degradation of the framework. It takes a lot more effort and thought to make a fully functional simple API(Which hides its complexity from the developers) and make it scalable with the simplicity intact. It is not possible to come up with the design of such a framework at once, we would have to re architecture it at major versions. But it is important to keep the earlier point in mind. I like to have a scalable and simple framework that follows consistent patterns so later developers who scale up the base framework will have a clearly defined scheme to scale it up, and will avoid add hoc manners of doing it. I really love to do this, so the developers who join us later will praise us for doing such a well structured framework which is easy to build on top of it and easy to scale from the inside. If I am to do this, We can do some research on other application frameworks and come up with a good initial design for our framework in the community bonding period (After 10 th May. I am having semester end exams till that. And I will be very much free being an intern after that.Internship is said to be far less work than what you go through in a semester). Your base connection framework is superb. We would let that foundation framework be considered only about the connection aspects (providing APIs for REST WS or RPC). We will consider how the rest of the framework is built on top of it (approach 1 was only an initial idea there wasn't much thought behind it). This semester I am taking up an optional course for software architecture, I ll make sure to study well for it. I apologize if I am not replying you soon enough. Thank you. Regards, Sasinda Rukshan. On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote: