![]() This distinction is both exciting as well as a very key difference between the projects. The difference is that now the "little people" in the community have a chance to actually be a tangible part of Lucee in a way that no other CFML engine including Railo was able to offer. Anyone can participate in the list, anyone can enter tickets, anyone can submit pull requests just like always. The general community will, as always, have a say in Lucee's features, direction, and documentation via the new wiki (which is already touted to be bigger than Railo's wiki ever was). The paid memberships and Supporters are just to fund the non-profit and help cover its development. The good news is you don't have to pay anything to be a part of the Lucee community. For $9/mo you can be a Lucee Supporter with perks like conference discounts and access to the internal affairs of Lucee. Any company can become a paying member of the association, or can participate at a lower level as a "Supporter". Lucee's members aren't the only people with say in what happens to Lucee. The difference is Rasia and all the other members collectively have full control over what the association does in the future. It is the founding member of LAS and the primary contributor just like Railo Switzerland was the primary contributor to Railo. Rasia Switzerland is a new company that Micha is now part of. Paying members can vote on important topics and the members of the association decide what happens together.Ĭurrent companies who are members in Lucee are familiar names such as: By Swiss law, associations are very powerful organizations that allow for a very flexible controlling group, without any one party having full control. Lucee currently has no employees, but it has companies and individuals who are part of the association. It is owned by a NEW entity called Lucee Association Switzerland (LAS) which is a non profit organization. Lucee is a fork (copy) of the Railo code, named after the recent movie "Lucy". Some people have had interest in whether Lucee is courting any mainstream companies to take a slice of their pie. Lucee will have no such relationship to my knowledge- at least at first. But basically, it won't change- nothing in Railo is really changing. According to Sean C, it sounds like that was really more in name only. What has happened is Railo Switzerland has stopped supporting the Railo project owned by TRC.Ī few people have also asked about the Railo relationship with JBoss. This distinction has been invisible to most of the CFML community, and frankly it never really mattered to any of us until now. Software isn't free- even open source software. TRC is a group of companies who bought the Railo trademarks and in turn, agreed to invest into it. This is where The Railo Company (TRC) comes in. These guys created Railo back in the day, but they no longer "owned" it. This is the company that the familiar names like Micha and Gert worked for and it was the major contributor to the Railo project. You see, what most people (including me until recently) don't realize is that there are two separate entities that most of us just lumped together without realizing it when we referred to "Railo". Even though it's stalled out on the side of the road, it probably won't go anywhere soon. I'll happily accept corrections or clarifications in the comments. Please note, I am not speaking on behalf of Lucee nor Railo, these are my opinions and observations mixed with some info I've picked up along the way. Hopefully they will be answered more fully by the Lucee team as they dig out of this major announcement, but in the mean time this is a compilation of some answers I've given multiple times today around the Internets. I'm throwing together this post to address some questions that have come up over and over again today. I personally think Lucee is going to be more like one of those. In other cases, the old project basically sits there and everyone stands up, shuffles over to the new one, sits down and continues as if nothing happened. In some cases, the original project continues alongside the new one. For instance, MySQL spawned MariaDB, OpenOffice, begat LibreOffice, Hudson turned into Jenkins, and even recently Node.js was forked int IO.js. There are a lot of large open source projects that have forked before. This is a major event in the tiny CFML eco-system and it's understandable that there's a lot of questions floating around and confusion on just exactly what has happened. I was lucky to be part of the launch party (via webcam) that happened this morning in London. ![]() Railo, the free open source alternative CFML engine to Adobe's ColdFusion Server has been forked and reborn as a new product called Lucee.
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