Benson Margulies wrote: > Gav and David, > > Forgive me. I hope that replies are coming across as constructive and not defensive.
Over time i have tried to encourage anyone who comes along to go the extra step. I do need to balance between encouraging comments and being real about the sleepy under-staffed situation at Forrest. In the past i put in a lot of extra volunteer time. Now i can only assist. > I don't know either why so many people assume that there's > nobody home at Forrest, and so just advertise the 1.5/1.6 problem, but > after the third or fourth I just assumed that the project was mighty > sleepy. Thus 'residual'. It *is* sleepy. See our past board reports. As noted, some set of committers do attend to queries on our mail lists. So i really have no explanation why people don't (in general) come here to ask or to help. Some committers are still attentive and have gradually worked on the holdups. My gut feeling is that it is so close, that one more concerted push would get it to a state that an RM can step forward. > Obviously, I can't be an RM, I'm not a > committer. I'll follow David's breadcrumbs soon. :-) "breadcrumbs" ... nice one. I admit that as part of my OSS technique. For Forrest i reckon that our release process would be easier for someone who is familiar with Forrest. As noted, it gets a bit convoluted. We ship the current set of docs with the release. And we have a large set of packaged supporting products. -David
