Werner,
I understand your situation. I think what Alan suggested is very close to what I have in mind. But, he explained it better. That's why I said I would review patch individually, each time after I said we have no plan to for new feature. I understand the frustration you are experiencing because the feature or bug you're looking for is not got fixed for long time. It is definitely true that we are not able to met everybody expectation. However, I would also like to emphasis that Castor JDO as an open source community did make a lot of progress during the last half a year, in term of bug fixing, even we only have part time resources in that timeframe. There were 3 pages of fixes listed in the changelog of 0.9.3.9. We haven't fix all bugs for all users, but we did fix significant amount of them. Although it is true that we didn't review and commit patches "right the way", we did eventually made most of them. I had been hoping that I would be given more time on the project, but it didn't happen. I will remain active. However, I am not optimistic that "significant more time" would come very soon, as I notice there are other deadlines for me to run for. I hope this time I make it clear enough. :-) Thomas -----Original Message----- >From: Cabrera, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:31 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [castor-dev] What is the process of contributing to Castor; > >Let me ask a naive question and, please, when you read this, realize that I >am not in the slightest bit being facetious. Also, I'm jumping into the >middle of this thread. > >Why not take a snapshot and put in a fix for yourself? Post the fix to the >group and if it fits into Thomas' refactoring plan, it will be put in. If >not, then at least you get the turn around for a fix that your project >needs. Isn't that what OpenSource is about? > > >Regards, >Alan > >-----Original Message----- >From: Werner Guttmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:01 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [castor-dev] What is the process of contributing to Castor; > > >Thanks, Bruce. It does, at least for now. You might have seen the "Plea for >info ..." >thread on castor-dev, where me and two colleagues of mine are trying to >establish whether >major bugs (or "change requests", as Thomas calls them) will get resolved in >the near >future (based on messages found in the archives about 8 months ago). > >I guess we are just afraid that we will have to abandon Castor as one of our >tools to use >as our expectations towards bug resolution(s) have not been met. Now I know >that Castor >is open-source, but Thomas has made it very clear that he doesn't appreciate >more >developers due to ongoing refactoring. > >It's just a bit of a dilemma we are facing here, and we are trying to find a >way to > >a) help you fixing this one particular problem. >b) help you identifying the problem (but it seems like Thomas exactly knows >what the >problem is anyway) >c) get an idea what the problem really is (whether it's just a problem with >the OQL Query >builder) >d) etc. > >Thanks >Werner > >Bruce Snyder wrote: > >> Werner Guttmann wrote: >> > >> > excuse my curiosity, but what's the last time this contributor list has >been >> > updated? In other words, how many people are really contributing towards >JDO ? If I >> > remember some past thread on castor-dev correctly, Assaf, for example, >has left the >> > project. >> >> Werner, >> >> Yes, you're correct. Although Assaf is the original architect of Castor, >> he is no longer involved on a day-to-day level. >> >> Keith Visco, Arnaud Blandin, Sebastien Gignoux and Andrew Fawcett >> actively work on the Castor XML side. Thomas Yip, Oleg Nitz, myself and >> one or two others actively work on the Castor JDO side. >> >> Others listed on the contributors page have made contributions over >> time, but are not actively involved. >> >> Does this help, Werner? >> >> Bruce >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: >> unsubscribe castor-dev > >----------------------------------------------------------- >If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-dev > >----------------------------------------------------------- >If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-dev > ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
