On Dec 31, 2007 11:21 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, > It's cool to be able to say Ladies in the greeting. Not many projects can say that. > > I wish you an Happy New Year ! I hope that 2008 will be way better than > 2007, with less wars, less bugs and less cholesterol :) > +1 > > I also wish that we will get new versions to the public, new features, > and get more and more (happy) users, some more committers, and also some > more documentation ;) > +1 > > 2007 was pretty good from the projects' perspective, with seven new > committers : > - Martin Alderson (ADS) > - Martin Bosteels (MINA) > - Chris Custine (ADS) > - Jeff Genender (MINA), > - Niklas Gustavsson (MINA) > - Mike Heath (MINA) > - Felix Knecht (ADS) > - Mark Webb (MINA) > Indeed this was most excellent. > Alex Karasulu was also crazy enough to let me become the ADS project > Chairman, I wish I did not do too bad ... > I did not "let" you do anything. I resigned since it is best for the project and the PMC chose you :). Projects should cycle the chair position regularly. You're doing a much better job and I personally am very thankful for it. > Last, not least, we have seen some of our projects' committers being > accepted as Apache members : > - Alan Cabrera > - Jeff Genender > - David Jencks > - Trustin Lee > - and myself > All of you are great people that make the foundation much better. > > So this is it ! We are done with Year-2.0.0-7, get ready for > Year-2.0.0-8-RC1 ! > Yeah!!! On a side note I'd like to kick off a project specific thread without cross posting to see what peoples expectations and resolutions are for these projects for 08. Happy New Year, Alex
