[ecf-dev] Status of Bulletin Board API

[Erkki Lindpere <erkki@xxxxxx>]

Hi!

As you may have noticed, I have not been able to keep up with the ECF 
schedule with BBAPI. Unfortunately, I have found out that I'm just not 
that great working in context of a well planned schedule when doing 
volunteer work. I always keep letting "real life" and work interfere, 
hehe :)

And at the moment I am not sure if I can start allocating more time for 
this. So in order to keep the BBAPI component moving along in a faster 
pace with the rest of ECF, I'd like to ask if anyone has enough free 
cycles, interest and willingness to take over developing and maintaining 
BBAPI?

I think it would probably be best if I could finish some of the 
uncompleted work that is left myself during October, and then hand it 
over to someone else. I think the API itself is good, but some of the 
implementation bits may be somewhat ugly or broken and ideally I would 
like to fix them myself before handing it over. But if anyone wants to 
take over right now, I would offer any assistance I can. (there are also 
some changes that I have commited to bbapi.tigris.org some time ago, but 
they are not in the eclipse.org repository yet).

The next step for BBAPI would be creating a usable news/forum reader on 
top of it. Scott thinks so too. But I am fairly sure that I wouldn't 
have enough time to keep it moving at an acceptable pace if I tried to 
do it myself.

Erkki