[Cayenne-dev] [ANN] New committer -- Robert Zeigler

Congrats Robert, and welcome to the team as a committer! :-)

I can take care of the account setup. Robert, please email me
privately a couple of unix ids for your account, in the order of
preference.

Thanks,
Andrus

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

Welcome aboard Robert! I hope to look at the Cayenne+Tapestry stuff
more in the near future and can hopefully contribute a bit.

Finally we got an account for Robert: robertdzeigler. I added commit
permissions for Cayenne SVN folders. Welcome on board, Robert!

Andrus