Okay, will remove the alarm bells bit. I wasn't have a dig at anyone with it, just remarking on the number of messages sent to dev@ and commits - as much my own activity as anyone else's.
There's a lot of interesting papers around about distributed state and fault tolerance, isn't there? it almost makes me wish I commuted to work on a train to give me more time to read them... but only almost, I hate trains! On 11 Apr 2011 00:14, "Patricia Shanahan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I'm taking time out to deal with the RIVER-395 patch, my main > River activity is educating myself about fault tolerant transactions, by > reading papers on the subject. That does not produce much in the way of > immediately visible results, but may be very useful in the long term. > > Patricia > > On 4/10/2011 3:52 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: >> Good job Tom, I wouldn't worry about the alarm bells bit, I think people >> are still active behind the scenes, or thinking about what needs to >> happen next. I'll get back into it soon too. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter. >> >> Tom Hobbs wrote: >>> Comments always welcome, due date is 18th March. >>> >>> Below is the April board report for River >>> >>> Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK >>> Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini >>> Specification. >>> >>> Releases: >>> First TLP release still hasn't been cut. This is due to a user >>> raising concerns about a newly discovered (or introduced?) bug with a >>> specific JDK on a specific OS. >>> >>> Progress: >>> There has been some discussion on dev@. There has been a marked drop >>> in the number of participants and areas of discussion though. Some >>> progress has been made researching one or two areas of specific >>> interest regarding new River features. This will be the last of our >>> monthly reports, we expect to change to quarterly reports from now on. >>> >>> Community: >>> As above, community activity has dropped, but given the relative small >>> size of it one or two members being not participating for myriad >>> reasons has a disproportionate effect. This is still not a concern >>> right now, however if it continues for another couple of months then >>> alarms bells should start to ring. >>> >>> Issues: >>> No board issues at this time. >>> >> >> >
