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July 21, 2004
The Butterfly Manifesto
Ugo announces and publishes The Butterfly Manifesto. He calls it a "pompous name" for a "modest proposal". The aim of Butterfly (as I understand it) is to conceive and implement parts of Cocoon using Spring and thereby overcome some of the difficulties programmers have with Cocoon today.
My gut feeling is that this may be the most important "thing" to happen inside the Cocoon community for the last couple of years. In a way Cocoon has been showing signs of stagnation for a few months now. Not because no-one is interested in the project (quite the opposite actually), but because Cocoon is now "good enough" to be used. At least there is no visible sign that someone has a real itch to scratch when it comes to the improvements put forward so far. The manifesto is also important because it shows that the Cocoon community members do have fresh and "revolutionary" ideas.
Posted by Matthew at July 21, 2004 03:17 PM