Retiring Wave
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Retiring Wave
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Re: Retiring Wave
#2A single and solemn wave goodbye.
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#3People who aren't aware, this was the continuation of Google Wave, the real time collaboration tool that was, for a while, built into gmail, and then taken over by apache. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave
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#5 This is the way Wave ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.
But that's how the world goes sometimes.
Re: Retiring Wave
#6People who aren't aware, this was the continuation of Google Wave, the real time collaboration tool that was, for a while, built into gmail, and then taken over by apache. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave
> tool that was, for a while, built into gmail
Do you have a source for this? I don't remember it ever being part of Gmail.
Re: Retiring Wave
#7People who aren't aware, this was the continuation of Google Wave, the real time collaboration tool that was, for a while, built into gmail, and then taken over by apache. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave
> tool that was, for a while, built into gmail Do you have a source for this? I don't remember it ever being part of Gmail.
it wasn't.
when it was release, it was actually introduced (internally) as something like, "what would email look like if were invented today?"
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#8I learned about this from the recent popular article, “How not to replace email”:
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#9While the Apache Foundation hosts a lot of great projects, it also looks to me like a place where big projects go to die.
I'm thinking of the whole Apache Open-Office fiasco, among other things. Looking at their list of projects sorted by number of committers[0], event at the top I don't get the idea that most of those have a lot of momentum.
Do I just have a completely wrong impression? I'm curious if there's something to learn from this.
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#10I wonder if Wave and Reader are hanging out in heaven somewhere.