This is kind of like before NHibernate moved to hibernate.org.
We had a separate forum which was better than the current one since we could create sub sections and organize it like we wanted.
Aside that, we have to think of what value there is in moving out?
- Blogging? Is anybody interesting in creating/moving his blog to nhibernate.org/blogs/ ?
- Documentation (How to, Faq...):
Well, I would highly prefer any documentation be inside the official one (in docbook format) since that one can be compiled and released for online access/printing/whatever. Now, I know that it is quite restrictive (since it is docbook), and that's why we have this page: http://www.hibernate.org/365.html
Maybe we could ressucitate the wiki that we had a while ago...
By the way, if we decide to create a new forum, it is highly important to export the current one (even if it isn't reorganized) because it contains a lot of information that should stay available (without having to juggle between two websites).
So, overall, I fear that it might be not be worth the effort. But I could be wrong if you have any specific ideas.
Oh, and about JBoss, let's not be unfair: They did pay Sergey to work full time on NHibernate for about a year and it is in that time frame that NHibernate 1.0 was released (which required a lot of clean up, organization and proper documentation).
I think that they stopped supporting NHibernate simply because it wasn't profitable enough and too much "out of line" (since they focus on Java).
And does RedHat really "owns" anything? We should be able to take back nhibernate.org if we want to...
Pierre Henri.
--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Fabio Maulo <fabiomaulo@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Fabio Maulo <fabiomaulo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NHibernate-development] NH site
To: "the NHibernate development list" <nhibernate-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 4:11 PM
2008/6/20 Martijn Boland < martijn@boland.org>:
What's the current involvement of JBoss with NHibernate?
Do you see any kind of involvement since 1 year and half ?
I don't.
Do they still support NHibernate?
They don't support NH; JBoss is owned by RedHat and you can imagine how much they want hear about something involved with Microsoft technology.
Or do they 'own' something like names or trademarks?
RedHat own www.nhibernate.org and NHibernate trademark. But for us this is not a problem... We don't ask nothing more that the ability to have our site based on our technology with our knowledge base, our blog and all with our stile. Obviusly we will have various links to JBoss site, at the end NH is a port of Hibernate.
If not, I think it's alright to have our own site.
And if yes?
This is OpenSource under LGPL license.
I can help setting this up. For example, we already have a Screwturn
Wiki user provider @Cuyahoga for single sign-on.
We will need help from all want to contrib with NH community. It will be the spirit of the site.
Does NHibernate get any funding or sponsoring at the moment? This could
be useful for hosting etc.
At the moment we don't have sponsors more than who give us free license to develop NH (VisualSvn, Resharper, dotTrace, NAntBuilder, OxyGen, JIRA).... and another one: Karl Chu are hosting our JIRA. -- Fabio Maulo -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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