jan i wrote:
The community needs immediate help from the IPMC. One person is causing a major break in the community
So much has been written in public that I can comment in public. Your (Jan's) determined effort to remove Dennis from Corinthia is excessive. The fact that you feel the need to single out Dennis so often in the mails you write to the dev list, including the mail celebrating 0.1 where you still had to take revenge on the "one guy" who tried to slow you down, is frankly excessive. This attitude may justify that people go (or remain) silent just to avoid being the next in your kill list.
Please take this with the right spirit, as friendly (even though surely frank) advice and nothing else. I don't want to start a debate, and even if you start it, I won't have time to follow up.
My perception is that the community is not having a "major break": it is going through normal growing pains that I would like to see addressed in a more inclusive way. Well, that's it for me and I don't think this will change the future history; we have mentors for these issues and we have to respect them, but I wanted to make clear what my thoughts as a human being are about these issues for an incubating project.
We are proud that we have managed to make our first release.
...release, Corinthia (incubating) 0.1. [Edit: I see it's listed at the end; OK like this too].
We have a PPMC/committer invitation outstanding.
It's uncommon to talk about outstanding invitations, it's better to keep the real one (the new committer announcement) for the next report.
As noted on "issues" we have a severe community problem, which if not solved probably will cause the community to break and further development to stop.
Of course in my picture, in a mature project this should never happen, because people continue their involvement and work more closely with those who are closer to their style. I see an Apache project as a University class: you don't really get to choose who is in the big group and who is not, but you get to choose the people you can work more productively with. And to expel someone from the big group you have to have EXTREMELY good reasons.
Again, this is simply friendly advice that I suspect will not change the course of history and will only waste our time (but only today; again, I'm not starting a debate); my point is, look at this from the point of view of a future contributor or a current silent committer.
Regards, Andrea.
