+1 on the JIRA on another list, do we need a vote on that, or can we just ask INFRA for it?
Maybe this discussion should be in a separate thread, however... EdB On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: > I would prefer JIRA activity to be on another list. I've heard from quite > a few people in my User Group that they dropped off dev@ people of the > noise of JIRA. I think those of us who want to know what is committed > will subscribe to those (plus, it makes filtering those messages into a > separate folder easier ;P ) > > -Nick > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 5/28/13 10:25 AM, "Greg Reddin" <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Greg, do you think donations like these need to have a goal of being >> >> integrated with Apache Flex or becoming its own project? Personally, >> >>I'd >> >> be ok with Apache Flex being a warehouse of all kinds of Flex-related >> >>code >> >> even if there is no active development for it. >> > >> > >> >There's a couple of things to consider here: >> > >> >1) The board does not favor "umbrella" projects. Jakarta was an umbrella >> >project and it contained (at one time) Struts, Tomcat, Commons, JMeter, >> >and >> >a whole bunch of Java-related projects. It became clear that the Jakarta >> >community was too fragmented to get consensus so it spun off all those >> >projects into TLPs. That could easily start to happen here. >> That would make sense for Jakarta, especially if there was active >> development on all of those pieces. I'm not sure that will be the case >> here. I think there's a good chance that these application frameworks may >> not have much activity. >> >> For me, incubation was so much work that it seems easier to take these >> code donations and see if a community forms around it and then spin it off >> than going through the whole >> proposal/initial-committers/mentors/infra-setup/graduation process. >> >> > >> >2) This mailing list is already too high-traffic to follow. Practically, >> >we >> >could probably already split up the Flex project into multiple projects. >> >It >> >seems to me that folks are starting to gel around different efforts, like >> >getting new releases of the SDK, vs. compilers, etc. It could be that we >> >need to form new PMCs or it could be that we just need to enact >> >sub-projects. But we have to be careful with sub-projects to avoid point 1 >> >above. >> What are your thoughts on just having more mailing lists? We toyed with >> the notion of having all JIRA activity on a different list. I haven't >> looked at the stats, but Erik and I haven't done much >> Falcon/FalconJX/FlexJS work over the last two weeks and I'm not sure >> there's been less activity on the dev list. >> >> -Alex >> > >> >> -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
