On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 23:35, Brett Porter wrote:
> > And the approach building a set of developers for the 
> > plugins? If it's akin to what has happened with Arnaud that 
> > would be an excellent thing. A track record of producing good 
> > quality patches and recognized by someone else trying to take 
> > care of that plugin. I think Vincent also mentioned Fabrizio 
> > wrt the announce plugin. 
> 
> Yes Fabrizio has also helped me out with XDOC (although I haven't checked it
> all yet).

Yes, it was the entire change of the plugin I wasn't kosher with as it
changed entirely the css and markup and broke the theme work Bob did. I
definitely want to maintain what Bob originally had because it is the
first plugin I intend to swap out partially for the pure java version,
the first phase being simply the xdoc -> xhtml transformation which is
entirely doable as a first step. This is why I was highly hesitant on
processing the massive set of changes.

> > This approach is fine, I think 
> > asking the general populace of users if they wish to help 
> > maintain a plugin where they have no record of having done so 
> > before is not fine. Just to be clear, I assume you're not 
> > saying this is like we're asking for applications for plugin 
> > maintainers. 
> 
> Yep, this is exactly right. While it'd be great to get help in this area,
> it'd be crazy to start gathering committers with no track record. We need
> people who are going to stick around, do the right thing, and respect the
> direction that the PMC has set for the project.
> I think I also pointed out that I thought plugin maintainers should be
> willing to help on all of the plugins, not just one.

People are going to work on what they're interested in, you can't
stipulate they have to work on more then one if they really have no
desire to.

> - Brett

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jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will
elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come
and sit softly on your shoulder ...

 -- Thoreau 


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