New Fusebox core leader Adam Haskell announced
After two and a half years at the helm of core file development for Fusebox 5, Sean Corfield's work commitments are causing him to focus on a narrower group of projects and he is regretfully stepping down from the Fusebox project altogether. He wishes the project continuing success for the future. We thank Sean for all the energy and hard work he has contributed to Fusebox over the years - both in improving the core and in putting the files into public source control/ bug tracking with the trac site.Adam Haskell, the Lead Architect at The Kroger Co., and a long time Fuseboxer will be taking over leadership of the core file development. Adam has contributed to the core over the years and as the lead architect at Kroger he is in charge of their framework stack, which includes governing the use of and adding functionality to their framework stack where Fusebox is foundational.
I asked Adam where he would like to guide Fusebox? He said, " As I look at the framework landscape, inside and outside CFML, more and more frameworks are going away from XML. I would like to continue Fusebox's trend away from XML and explore more use of annotations/custom attributes to expand Fusebox's functionality. We've been using Fusebox since Fusebox 4.0 and over the years we've extended Fusebox's functionality to provide even better error handling and bring more definition to layouts. I plan to bring some of this experience to the table and build additional features into the framework. It seems some of the top ColdFusion talent, and consulting companies, have written off Fusebox, I want to see what can be done with Fusebox to (re)appeal to these folks while maintaining its low barrier to entry. When it comes down to it I want to take Fusebox where users want Fusebox to go, not just current users, prospective and past users as well."
Adam Haskell is also a member of the BlueDragon Steering Committee, and Kroger's ColdFusion Corporate Champion (internal User Group manager).