Don't count email as dead yet.....see my email on the other thread. On 6/15/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:24 -0300, Ramiro Pereira de Magalhaes wrote: > > > Well, that's quite bad... :( > > Isn't anyone with "managing powers" interested in "pushing email towards > > a release"? I can checkout this project and start fixing anything by > > myself as (if) needed but this way I'll be working alone and in a > > "branch" that will probably be thrown away when the project start moving > > again... > > Unfortunately it looks like no committer here has the spare time or > interest in email to help you out. And unfortunately that includes me > too. > > You are perfectly entitled to take a copy of the code and start a > project on sourceforge (or elsewhere) as long as the license is complied > with (the easiest way to do that is just continue to use the APL 2.0 > license). If you do this, then I would be happy to see a note on the > email project wiki pointing to the sourceforge branch. > > If the sourceforge fork is successful (builds a community of a few > developers, has happy users) then there is every chance that the > maintainers of that project (esp. you) might be invited to become > commons committers and merge the code back in here -- if you wanted to. > > Or as you say you could just maintain a private copy. That's still an > improvement over starting from nothing. > > It's always a shame to see a commons project die because the original > committers went away when users actively want to become developers (not > to mention bad for jakarta's reputation). But unfortunately it also > takes some time and effort from existing commons committers to check > that potential contributors are actually people we do want to give > commit rights to and to allow to perform releases in Apache's name. And > unlike some open-source projects, there aren't any people paid to work > on commons AFAIK. > > Regards, > > Simon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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