Hi all, lately I am concerned about our community.
I see many strong individuals that have different philosophies about the way this project should work and how we should develop our code. This normally is not a problem for other projects here on Apache because people just swallow their ego and trying to find a consensus on a project base. In the sense of what is best for the *PROJECT* (!!!), here it seems very different. Instead of reaching a consensus it seems some people just do their own thing and not care too much about the opinion of this community. Latest examples is our guideline discussion that just stopped because we could not get a consensus in starting it. This is quite typical for this project, someone rejects a proposed way, regardless that she is alone in this rejection, and then the whole issue does not get touched for the next three month. Another phenomenon is the lenya fork that some committer are developing outside of the ASF. IMO that is very scary, but I see this as consequence of a week community that is not able to find consensus. It seems that we prefer to go the way of least resistance. I would like to have a branch for the fork here in our code base. This way we all can review the work and hopefully enhance usability. IMO we *all* need to get a grip and try to solve this problem. We cannot waste resources in having endless discussions or having good ideas in a non ASF fork. How can we solve this problem? salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
