I currently have no time at all :( I'm trying to move forward my "main" Apache project And need to do day time work :(( Hopefully will find some time and will try to contribute something :)
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> wrote: > For me, FlexJS is 'rocket science' - I'm not an expert in compilers, or > even the build tools involved - I've written a few simple maven scripts > here and there. > > I also have less time - my employeer has a single Flex application now, > and one in AIR. New work is in Ember, Angular or some other 'JS native' > framework. > > I was looking to help with the change the website CMS but I've been well > beaten to it :-) > > I do not see a problem in "living with it". > > Tom > > > On 13/10/16 07:08, Christofer Dutz wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> >> I just wanted to take the opportunity to ask you what's keeping you from >> participating in any discussions here on the list and on contributing >> anything else. >> >> >> Apache Flex currently has the 10th largest committer base in the ASF, but >> currently it feels like there is only 4-5 people still active on this >> project. Having this in-diversity in discussions is starting to get more >> and more tiresome as I almost know the responses which are going to come if >> I post something. I think most of the time I could start writing the reply >> for the expected response right away so I don't have to do it later. >> >> >> Are we doing something wrong? >> >> >> What's keeping all of you stay silent? >> >> >> Is is: >> >> - lack of interest? >> >> - lack of time? >> >> - that you think this is too much rocket-science? / It's too complicated >> to contribute >> >> - a consumer attitude that you just want to know what others are doing >> for you? >> >> >> Apache is all about community, but for me this doesn't feel much like a >> community anymore. Sometimes I think we could rename dev@flex.apache.org >> to a...@flex.apache.org as he is definitely the most active poster. >> Discussing stuff with the project sort of feels more and more like "If I >> want to change something, I'll take it to the list and discuss it with Alex >> first". It shouldn't be that way. >> >> >> Is is just us 4-5 people and we simply have to live with it, or can we do >> anything to get you guys back on board? >> >> >> For the last more-than-a-year I have been working exclusively on trying >> to lower the complexity to contribute in order to get more people on board. >> It seems that effort was a waste of time. Please prove me wrong. >> >> >> @Alex: I would like to kindly ask you to please refrain from responding >> right away and let at least a hand full of others respond first. I would >> like to see if this eventually prevents the "someone else is taking care of >> it for me" effect. >> >> >> Chris >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. >> For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> > > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
