----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Axis-Dev (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: [VOTE] Steve Loughran for committer
> > I hereby nominate Steve Loughran as an axis committer. wow, I am honoured > Right now Axis' committer list is made up of a bunch of people who > don't work on Axis anymore, and some people who do which are mostly > (though not all) from IBM and Macromedia. When this project started it > had a very vibrant developer community from all over the place, full of > varied people thinking and coding together. I'd like to get that > vibrancy kick-started again, and one way to do so is to encourage >participation, especially from people outside MACR/IBM. I am all in favour of diversity. You should know that I actually work at HP, currently doing production side web services stuff, i.e. a consumer of technology; it gives you an interesting perspective: http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/when_web_services_go_bad.html ...nowadays I am looking at embedded web services; you need to think about long term interop if you are going to stick your server in flash somewhere. > Steve has shown some good motivation in working on what is certainly >one of my big pet peeves about Axis, the build process. His patch is >dandy, and his ideas are good. If he's psyched to continue working on >this and other areas of the project, I say we give him the keys so he >can drive it himself. It would certainly make it easier to fix these things; as long as you understand that it will be a very intermittent priority item. What with a) committer status on ant, b) co-authorship on a book on ant reaching delivery milestones this weekend, c) behind schedule on my cycle training and Alpine mountaineering for this season. As an ant-dev person, messy builds niggle me, but big complex projects also provide the dog-food to really get ant to scale. Likewise, fixing up the ant task to work right is something I know how to do. All the other stuff is, well, not my area of expertise right now, though I like the idea of fixing interop with .NET better, even if it means C# tests and helper classes. Also, 0800 to 0900 PST IRC? I'll have to read the archives ; attendance is optional there, right. -Steve
