Can't we find someone that's not an exceptions bigot? ;-) kidding Dan does seem to be the best choice. If he wants the job, that sounds great!
Jon On Dec 5, 3:26 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All: > > I feel that, over the last several months, development of DataMapper > has stagnated. I was excited to see a new, awesome, orm come onto the > Ruby scene, and have been an active developer on it for over a year > now. However, I think that we've been wandering around for the last > few months, with no direction, no goals, and a deteriorating codebase. > Dan Kubb (dkubb) and I (Rando) kicked off a fork, in attempt to > rewrite all the specs, and we have received awesome contributions from > several of you. Work is progressing well, but slowly. > > Unfortunately, the founder of DataMapper, Sam Smoot, has been > otherwise occupied with "Real Life", and unable to provide much > leadership or direction. I do not fault him, or anyone, for the > current state of things. We all have priorities, and sometimes the > ones that pay take precedence over the ones that are mere hobbies. For > DataMapper to thrive, I feel we need someone to take over as official > maintainer who has the time necessary to devote towards this project. > > As such, I submit for consideration of this group that Dan Kubb take > over official "head maintainer" duties. Dan is active in the list and > IRC channels, and has performed the majority of the work in the spec > rewrite in his dm-core fork. He also released the last gem release of > DataMapper. He's also shown an interest in doing so, and I think he's > an ideal candidate for what we need to continue to move DataMapper > forward to 1.0. > > Paul Sadauskas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
