I have been wondering for a long time how many people are actually working on Grails. It seems to me Groovy has a lot more resource than Grails. And I wonder if G2One should put more resource to the Grails project.
Another issue I observed is, number of Grails issues in JIRA is getting higher and higher over time. (and many closed issues are actually "won't fix")
From searching of the mail list archive and from my own experience, many questions to the user mail list are unanswered.
I would call Grails a complete web framework. It has many unique features that are much better than other Java web application frameworks, e.g. easy url mapping, tag lib etc. but i could hardly call it mature until it fix more bugs. It's understandable as it's 1.0.3 only.
I hope I am not sound like grumbling and I bet on Grails too and I definitely wish it to get better. It seems to me it's more meaningful to make further improvement on Grails before spending more resource in marketing.
Regards,
mingfai
quite a few Java web frameworks would envy. As a startup developer
that bet my company on Grails, I dont have fears about the platform I
chose, only confidence. The only "dangerous area" I can see for Grails
is that I sometimes get the feeling that the framework is really well
known only by Graeme. In open source there is a saying that goes about
how you should avoid having parts of the code that only one guy knows
and understands fully. In Grails I feel a lot of areas are mastered
only by Graeme, which makes him absolutely vital to the health of
Grails :) Hopefully this situation will improve too however, as people
like Peter Ledbrook as hired by G2One, and we will have also maybe
have commiters coiming from the community, really knowing the
internals of Grails. Disclaimer: I dont read the Grails developer ML,
so this statement may not be completely accurate, it's just the
feeling I get for reading this ML.
Jean-Noel
