On 4/29/2015 9:45 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote:
Hi all: We have enough active committers to collect 3 ‘+1’ votes and make a release. So the project is stable and functional, if not very active.
I should have mentioned some of the things I think are right about the project. We have several very able committers, including, as Greg points out, a PMC quorum for approving a release. Mailing list communications tend to focus on technical and policy issues, not personalities. We don't have a lot of problems I have heard about in other projects, such as splits into factions that talk past each other.
But, having said that, yes, we have a problem, and we have had this problem almost since the inception of the project. We do not have agreement on the future direction of the project. I’m not sure if we even have a good collective understanding of what River ‘is’, never mind what it should be. Some of our community use JERI as a plain remote procedure call mechanism, without using the service discovery or mobile code aspects of River. Some of our community want to rethink River as some kind of Internet operating system. Some of our community want to experiment with interesting security policies and serialization techniques. We have huge amounts of work (I am guilty of some of it) that has been done in isolation, without a collective understanding of what we should be concentrating on.
Thanks for the detailed and constructive analysis. I would appreciate input from others giving their own analysis. Patricia
