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It is not you. If you look closely at Apache projects. They are mostly Java type projects in various state of completion. Some are either failed at corporates a
by geodel 10y ago
It is not you. If you look closely at Apache projects. They are mostly Java type projects in various state of completion. Some are either failed at corporates and hence dumped there (struts, cordova and so on) or too experimental and hence good place get wider audience. If successful the main sponsor will add proprietary features/components and sell product and/or support(e.g Hadoop ecosystem components).
Some exceptions to this are Apache Http server, tomcat, svn etc.
- DashRattlesnake 10y ago> struts Wasn't Struts a once-popular non-failure whose time has passed; rather than a corporate failure that was "dumped"?
- smrtinsert 10y agoI look at the project list and I think the great majority are not dead and abandoned. They are not the hottest list of tech but they are stable and used.
- andrewbinstock 10y agoThat's in part because the dead ones and the dump-ware are migrated by Apache to the "attic."
- _wmd 10y agoThere are plenty of live and popular Apache projects that get plenty of press time: Zookeeper, Hadooop, CouchDB, Cassandra, Storm, Cloudstack, SpamAssassin, Lucene(! -- the guts of ElasticSearch), Spark, .. hell, the list is fairly endless. Yes they adopt a lot of code (OpenOffice!) and weird abstract crapware, but this is not quite the norm. If you measure the success of the average Apache project, I'm certain it is vastly higher than any comparable organization, although I'm not sure who you could compare Apache to.. GNU?
- geodel 10y agoNot much to disagree here. The success of Apache Http and Tomcat server will itself lift average success rate by quite a bit. Others if successful are mainly a vendor driven version of software.