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I've already found out some interesting things -- like the original maintainer is MIA =/
another thing you're about to discover is that ASF projects are organized a little differently from the way you might expect. we have developers and committers rather than maintainers. there is no one single maintainer for jelly but there are number of developers and committers.
james has a genius for creating uber cool, innovative ideas for software. he's also a really nice guy who's great to work with. unfortunately, he has more super cool ideas than time to finish them. it's common for james to come along with a great idea and some cool code and get everyone excited and the project buzzing. once a project seems to have gained a sustainable community, he'll gradually move onto new projects and interests.
problems may occur if the community doesn't recruit the developers the project needs to transition from a cool experiment to really useful tool. jelly lost it's way a while ago when a lot of the people who used to work on it became more interested in other projects (such as geronimo) but paul's done a good job in getting stuff back on track.
senior committers drifting away is usually not the problem for ASF projects that it is for ones organized differently. in fact, this happens regularly without ill effects providing that the community is healthy and replaces the energy that has been lost.
- robert
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