On Friday 24 September 2004 05:44, Berin Loritsch wrote:
The bottom line is that no matter how the
project is structured, if Avalon's fate is tied to one man then Avalon is essentially dead.
Firstly, how many does it take? 18 inactive committers in Excalibur, or 4 active committers in Avalon/Metro?? Isn't 4 better than 3 ?
Let's be dead serious for a moment. I have come to respect you, and I am not your enemy. My point, and the point that was made on the PMC list is that Stephen *was* Avalon. He was the only one who made any changes to the Merlin codebase of any consequence.
As a result, it added undue stress on one man: Stephen. Even though he never came right out and said it, I'm sure there was some resentment about that fact.
My encouragement at that time both to him and to this community was for him to voluntarily take a break and let others get into the code. A healthy community requires that the distribution of work is done in such a manner that if one person leaves it doesn't stop the whole community dead.
Now, Stephen went further than I was suggesting for him to do and he relinquished both PMC membership and commit rights. Even I was surprised by that move.
However, the rest of Avalon hasn't stepped up to the plate. Me? I'm very busy with my stuff, and since I'm doing a lot with Java 5 these days and really getting a deaper understanding of the JVM security/ sandboxing model, I don't have time to go into code I have not used nor will I likely be using any time soon.
That's me, but what about the rest of you guys? I suggested a plan of action to help learn the code and be able to implement things yourselves, but nothing has been done. My assumption is that we were waiting on the outcome of the Metro proposal.
Once that person is gone, the project is catatonic.
You single-handedly manage to keep this project catatonic.
I'm not going to respond to this. Stephen stepped down, and he hasn't hinted that he wants the commit privileges yet. He voluntarily gave them up, they were not stripped from him.
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