[jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?

[Jason Hunter]

I could write a long paper on the lifecycle of JDOM and probably will
someday.  The short summary appropos to your concerns is that after I
went self employed a little over a year ago, my free time dried up.  I
offered JDOM stewardship to a few individuals, but they declined. 
Laurent and Brad are still energetic and great coders and have fixed any
bugs as they've appeared, but the project's been going without a strong
rudder.  I realize we need to get to a 1.0 and have been trying to
arrange my schedule to help lead that.  I think as part of that we'll
drop some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas and just concentrate on the last
bit of spit and polish.  Finalize everything so people can rely on it
and be happy.

Here's my plan:
1) I'll propose a new TODO.txt based on what's there now and what's
   flagged in my inbox
2) We'll solicit feedback for anything else that needs to be in 1.0
3) We'll divide the items into well-defined, concrete actions
4) People can volunteer to perform the actions
5) When all actions are done we'll manage the 1.0 release

As far as the JCP goes, I think it's more important with limited
resources to get a 1.0 software release out.  To push JDOM through the
JCP process would require a volunteer to lead it.

-jh-

> I have been using JDOM for some time, and I have noticed the following
> problems:
> 
> 1.  There seems to be no desire to have a new release or even talk
> about it.
> 2.  There hasn't been any update to the web site in a year.
> 3.  Very few messages are posted to this list.
> 
> I enjoy using JDOM, if fact my project rely heavily on it.