On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > The real problem of course was from day one, that DeviceMap had no > functional committers:-/
I'll just state that the following elements of your message, quoted in full below, are unacceptable in Apache projects: -Violating someone's privacy by publishing the outcome of conversations that you say you had with their manager -Defamation of people and companies by making unfounded derogatory statements about them while presenting them as facts As this list is going to be closed soon I think we'll just leave it at that, I just wanted our archives to include this statement. -Bertrand On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > The real problem of course was from day one, that DeviceMap had no > functional committers:-/ > While we welcomed Volcan as a committer and a dozen others (including some > who served on the PMC, too) officially were or still are part of the team > nobody did commit. > > Beside occasional JIRA posts or patches, there could have been one commit I > recall Volkan made after he was elected, but hardly more. Not to mention > any of the other committers/PMC members other than myself or Reza for a > while. > Having 13 or 15 committers, but never more than 1 or 2 of them actually > committing won't work in any project for very long. Unless it's a "One Man > Show" (which Reza hoped, he could get, but without regular data updates > like OpenDDR had before we contributed it here, that makes no sense, nor do > 2 or 3 different data formats, if even 1 cannot be maintained by a > reasonable number of people) > > I spoke to Volkan's manager who explained, he was transferred to another > department and could no longer contribute to device or CMS related projects > including DeviceMap. > We see that happen quite a bit. Bertrand's Radu's company Adobe also could > not meet its Spec Lead responsibilities in the Java Content Repository 2.1 > standard (JSR 333: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=333) so that JSR went > dormant. Despite some Apache projects like Jackrabbit or Sling seemingly > alive and not yet dormant, but they use earlier versions of that standard. > > Oracle also had to hand over the Portlet Bridge standard and either > withdraw or drastically slow down Java EE JSRs due to lack of resources. We > seem so see that in many places where Open Source is seen as "Free Lunch" > but not everyone is willing to cook it or bring the ingredients ;-( > > Radu filed the termination to the board. Which should be processed by it > during the next meeting. > Until that I brush up a few documentation pages only which has been > neglected earlier. It's not like nobody downloads DeviceMap. In fact it saw > a surge beyond the time of the last releases in the course of 2016 counting > only Maven access to data or the Java client. So instead of leving > "scorched earth" or even deleting things from the repository like a few > former PMC members did, I try to leave it so everyone visiting the archive > page (which will probably be around as long as apache.org exists;-) gets an > idea what DeviceMap was/is about and if they find the code useful they can > download it or even fork to make own modifications. > > I'll also vote on the thread where other PMC members did. > > Regards, > Werner
