Bertrand/all, Sorry but the fact is, there were many committers and they did not commit for whatever reason.
Several committers (or their peers, there was nothing private or "secret" about it) expressed their hope or faith to do so, but could not fulfill those promises. That is why the activity was extremely low. Both you and Radu did not actively commit other than administrative tasks, you were clear and honest about that. Others who joined as committers may only have played the role of "observer" (that's what JSRs have for people who do not intend to actively participate) while joining as "committer". Some probably only subscribed to mailing lists like this one, the When Humphrey stated DeviceMap does not have a functional PMC I guess he meant the situation after you resigned having only 2 PMC members. The problem that only 2 PMC members out of the 13-15 committers really did commit existed before that. It always has. There is no way to talk around it or pretend it did not. Glad this is also recorded in the archive. The problem of lacking resources is not that of a few companies be it Adobe, Oracle or others. That is not a secret and the activity stats, dormant or withdrawn projects (JSRs) also speak a clear language. As do efforts by closed-source proprietary vendors to benefit from such weakness. Check out the response of fellow Java EE Guardian Pavel Pscheidl to a Gartner post proclaiming Java EE dead: http://www.pscheidl.cz/opinions/Gartner-JavaEE-report/ Something like that (Gartner paper) is what you can easily call defamation of companies and technologies to push some others or some agenda. I simply summarized what you can find out for yourself on the other list http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/devicemap-commits/ if you want. Especially how many individual committers were involved in those commits in each period of time. Cheers, Werner
