Have you considered appointing several people from the community as official
committers?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Catel Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> You are right Andrew. Since a few month we have slowed down the development
> of the project caused by some issue with our company (indeed, building a
> company based on an open source software is not that easy and involve a lot
> a money issue) and we are not involved on the community anymore.
>
> Moreover, there is no "legal" place to post patch/issue and so forth.
>
> For what is worth, I can tell you that I'll start to work again on the
> project in a couple of weeks, to *finally* release the 1.01 and try to look
> at what has been provided by the community.
>
> Btw, I started to work (from scratch) to the 2.0.
>
> Anthony
>
>
> Le 30/09/2010 17:16, Andrew Thompson a écrit :
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I've been working on enhancing APE to meet the needs of my specific
>> application, and its working pretty well. I've actually
>> reverse-engineered how to write a C module (the spidermonkey stuff was
>> too slow for my liking), written my own JS library for working with APE
>> without the requirement for wildcard DNS (plus, its less than 300 lines
>> of code) and now I've recently added ZeroMQ support to APE.
>>
>> The problem is, from what I can tell, the APE project never seems to
>> import changes from anyone but the weelya team. There's over a dozen
>> forks with commits on Github, but from what I can tell, *none* of those
>> forks has ever been merged with mainline (some even seem to be fixing
>> the same bugs twice because the older fix was never pulled in mainline).
>>
>> Also, there's patches floating around the mailinglist in a similar
>> state, I needed syslog support in APE (because the built in logger
>> doesn't support ANY form of log rotation) and I found that APE doesn't
>> actually support syslog (the config file is straight out misleading).
>> Luckily there was a pretty good patch in the mailing list archives but,
>> surprise, surprise, it never got merged or even commented on by anyone
>> in a position to merge it.
>>
>> Basically my question is, what is the point of having APE open source at
>> all if you aren't engaged with people trying to improve and enhance your
>> stuff? At least give me some hope that my patches will get *looked* at.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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