[Building Sakai] RSF Present and Future

[Steven Githens]

csev wrote:
> This topic always ends in a hung jury :)
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> The -1 folks have great reasons until some Cambridge IT person stops backing up the server or asks around and says "are we using this old server" - and since no one in earshot says how important the server is, they shut it off and send it to property disposition and then we have *no source code at all*.
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Actually,  ( I'm not great at keeping up with email these days ), but 
I'm pretty sure someone already did pull the plug and everything has 
been moved to fluid repositories.

I understand your concern, so I would say just go ahead and do it.  
Check a copy of everything in to a contrib project or something.  Or 
make a google code project or something. (Although since things seem to 
disappear from sourceforge after 5 years of inactivity, I"m not sure I 
trust any hosted service (even if it's google)).

I think we should continue to use the regular RSF repo for bug fixes and 
things (although I would see a strong case for moving the SakaiRSF 
module into our svn), but the copies could be there in contrib until we 
pull our own plug.

-s

> I am not concerned about next week or next year - I am concerned about five years from now.
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> There is no comparison between this and an apache project - of course we would never fork Apache - but RSF @ Cambridge is dead.  And over time folks will simply start to forget about it.   For now we know where the source is so I say we get a copy while the getting is good.   In five years - we will have the jars in our repo but not even have a single clue as to how to regenerate the jars.
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> This is like Y3K - we do what is lowest effort for the moment knowing full well that by the time this becomes a problem - we will no longer be around and so we simply won't care that it all falls apart.
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> /Chuck
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