Thanks for the vote of confidence.
I've enjoyed using cayenne for the last 4-5 years. I came to cayenne
looking for alternatives to hibernate. Although hibernate was
powerful, it also seemed grossly complicated and opaque. I've
thoroughly enjoyed cayenne's focus on the /developer/ experience, ease
of use, and transparency of the framework. As a committer, some of my
interests are:
1) To improve the usability and learnability of the framework
Recent experiences in teaching new users the ins and outs of the
framework have highlighted a few fringe cases that can be frustrating,
including:
a) Differences in handling between relationships vs. properties,
particularly in the context of transient vs. non-transient objects
b) Difficulties in providing a satisfactory solution to the problem
of dirty state being potentially perpetuated and preventing clean
commits
* This relates to a, particularly in relation to web-development
* More details later
2) To expand the feature-set to be more competitive with other ORM
tools out there, while maintaining the simplicity and transparency
that is cayenne.
3) To continue integration efforts
* As Kevin mentioned, I've worked considerably on integrating
Tapestry 5 and Cayenne; I would like to improve that integration,
whether the project eventually winds up as a subject project of
cayenne, tapestry, or neither.
My thanks, as well, to the cayenne community who has always been
considerate, helpful, and intelligent.
Robert
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10/313:26 PM , Kevin Menard wrote:
> It is with great pleasure that I get to announce that the Cayenne PMC
> has voted to make Robert Zeigler a committer of the Apache Cayenne
> project. Robert has been a longtime member of the Cayenne community,
> offering help on the user list, issues in JIRA, and patches for
> various issues. He is also one of the primary authors of the third
> party Tapestry5-Cayenne integration module. His experience with using
> Cayenne in various capacities should bring a lot to the project.
>
> Robert, welcome to the team. If you don't have an ICLA on file yet,
> please visit the following page:
>
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas
>
> and read up on your new role:
>
> http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html
>
>
> Andrus, would you mind filing an infra request to set up Robert's
> account? If not, I can try to do so . . . you're just a bit more
> versed in this procedure than me.
>
> Once again, congratulations.
>
> --
> Kevin
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