Keeping the Grails Activiti Plugin alive!

[limcheekin]

Hi there,

Time was passing fast, it was almost two years since the day I look into Activiti and creating the Grails Activiti Plugin. In this period, the project was very much run and supported by one person and his personal efforts via project hosting site at http://code.google.com/p/grails-activiti-plugin/ and online group at http://groups.google.com/group/grails-activiti-plugin.

I think active users of the plugin was realized that the development activities of the project was slow recently. Yeah, the project is reaching the tipping point, it is either stagnant here or keep growing and improving.

Frankly speaking, I shift my priority off the project as it didn't generate any income to me, and I am just an ordinary person that need to pay bills. I can't support and develop the plugin for free infinitely.

The plugin need to find a sustainable model in order to keep it alive. I would like to hear your suggestions and seek your advices for keeping the plugin alive.

Lastly, many thanks to the support given by Activiti's development team, community and plugin users to the project, and developers: Ned and Nicolas that help to release the recent versions of the plugin.

Hope to hear from you soon! Your feedback is very much appreciated.

Best regards,
Chee Kin
Creator of the Grails Activiti Plugin

P/S: The same post was posted to the plugin's group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/grails-activiti-plugin/e3HcB9_DV-g

[trademak]

Hi Chee Kin,

I understand that it's difficult to spend enough time on the plugin development.
Would it be an idea to move the code to the Activiti project?

Best regards,

[limcheekin]

Hi Tijs,

Thanks for suggestion. How the move to Activiti making any differences?

Best regards,
Chee Kin

Hi Chee Kin,

I understand that it's difficult to spend enough time on the plugin development.
Would it be an idea to move the code to the Activiti project?

Best regards,

[trademak]

Hi Chee Kin,

Moving the Grails plugin to the Activiti codebase would mean that there are more developers available to do some work on the plugin.
Most core Activiti committers won't do work on the plugin if it's in a separate code base I expect.

Best regards,

[limcheekin]

Hi Tijs,

Why not? The plugin's code was hosted publicly at https://github.com/limcheekin/activiti.

You and other developers are welcome to fork it and any changes contribute back to the code base is very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Chee Kin

Hi Chee Kin,

Moving the Grails plugin to the Activiti codebase would mean that there are more developers available to do some work on the plugin.
Most core Activiti committers won't do work on the plugin if it's in a separate code base I expect.

Best regards,

[trademak]

Hi Chee Kin,

There's no intention to fork the project in Activiti. What I propose is to move the code base to the Activiti project and make all contributions (including the ones from yourself) to the Activiti codebase.

Best regards,