Just in case you missed it.
-David
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Resent-From: <[email protected]>
From: David Blevins <[email protected]>
Date: February 12, 2009 3:29:37 PM PST
To: Alberto López <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Fwd: Thank you for not supporting me in any way
Reply-To: [email protected]
Alberto,
Lo siento por todo. The quality and speed of responsiveness on the
users list is something that has been a strength in the project, but
the user base has grown considerably since our 3.1 release and it is
leading to slower response times. To survive this growth we are
going to need some of these new users to turn into developers and
committers and contributors.
Apache projects are true community run projects for the good and
bad. The good is that the doors to the project are truly open, not
restricted to people of any specific company, and anyone can come in
and contribute. This includes you and any other members of the
community. OpenEJB has no owner other than Apache whose only
concern is ensuring that the users of the software have the access
they need to support themselves, add the features they need, can
benefit in others doing the same and ultimately to legally protect
that vision and those that share in it. Apache is not an
organization like JBoss or Glassfish where the code is owned by a
for-profit company who retains the right to make all decisions, has
a staff of salaried developers and a dedicated support team.
What we do have is a small community of individuals who believe in
the project, view themselves not as owners but as custodians, and
want nothing more than to see the project thrive and to share it
with others who feel the same. As one of the more core people on
the project, I feel a heightened responsibility for the project's
success, but ultimately it is everyone's responsibility as it should
be.
I truly hope you that you re-evaluate OpenEJB based on it's ability
or potential to serve your needs and to view the community of people
around it not as people who are trying to sell you something or owe
you anything, but as peers where we are all responsible for helping
each other as the equal owners of the project.
As a new, or potentially new, member of the community you're going
to be only on the receiving side initially, but I will do everything
I can as I'm sure others will, to reach a hand down and pull you in
should you decide you want to be a part of this small but growing
community.
We are truly in this together.
Con mucho respeto y sinceridad,
David
Begin forwarded message:
Resent-From: <[email protected]>
From: Alberto López <[email protected]>
Date: February 12, 2009 4:08:00 AM PST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Thank you for not supporting me in any way
Reply-To: [email protected]
we were seriously considering adopting OpenEJB (we are a spanish
government
agency) because we liked the concept, but this complete lack of
feedback has
made our minds clear.
Cheers.
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