Re: Where do we go from here to get to 2.2 "proper" ?

Walter Chang wrote:
> We have seen tremendous success and potential for usage of jython in
> our group (a information systems integration group in a big financial
> institiution) but the following items are making it difficult for us
> to gain widespread use and adoption. 

Just some musings on this. Since this company you reference is obviously 
benefiting substantially from Jython, maybe you could sell your superiors 
on donating $50K or so to the Python Software Foundation earmarked to 
making the improvements to Jython you want to you can use it more widely? 
Really, that's pocket change to a large financial institution; when I 
worked for such that amount could be spent on effectively useless annual 
vendor maintenance contracts (e.g. "we might patch it in next year's 
release" type responses to crucial problems) and hardly anyone would bat 
an eyelash; at least with free / open source software you often get some 
accountability and responsiveness. :-) If you could argue, say, that 
Jython raises a five person Java developer team's productivity by even 
just 20%, at a very conservative total employee cost of $100K / person, 
that's saving your company at least $100K a year. If your company doesn't 
want to hand over the money to a third party, then assigning one in-house 
developer out of ten to work on improving Jython might also have the same 
effect, or having each developer put 10% of their time to Jython issues. 
Anyway, don't want to put you on the spot; just something to think about.

--Paul Fernhout


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