Reading this the morning after, ;) I realize I wasn't clear that I
intended to rebuke not the trolls, for in a Meritocracy they hold no
standing, but existing committers and contributors. I'm afraid we have
gotten lax in our commitment to digging into the code and moving the
project forward. The Struts Action 1 situation in particular is
disturbing considering how much attention and discussion it gets.
One of our big problems in the past is bugzilla tickets would be filed,
patches added, and they'd be ignored for months, even years. I'm hoping
this new JIRA instance and ticket work that is going on will help
address that so that patches will be identified and applied sooner, and
it will be easier for a prospective contributor to see what needs to be
done and jump in. I think we've done a bad job of that in the past, and
I'd like to change it.
So again, there is much to do and please do join the efforts. If there
is something we can do to help make the project direction clearer, or
highlight areas that need work, please let us know. These are the types
of non-code discussions I feel are appropriate for this list as their
end result is more commits and technical involvement.
Don
Don Brown wrote:
How Struts adds committers isn't "fair" - code quality, community
involvement, trust, and yes, personal taste are all factors. The PMC
members are the gate keepers, and being human, they show favoritism,
bias, and sometimes poor judgment. You may not like it, but that's the
way it is. Great. Can we move on now?
Struts isn't some damn social club, where we sit around and gossip about
the neighbors. Struts is about building great web frameworks, however,
I feel we have strayed from this path and lost our focus. If we,
committers and contributors alike, spent half the time committing code
and contributing patches as we do bickering, complaining, and "offering
our opinions", we'd be on Struts 4 by now! Let's stop this nonsense,
and get back to work!
Do you have too much free time on your hands? Great, there is much to
be done:
- Struts Action 1: We finally got the build working and have built a
test build. I haven't heard a single comment from anyone who has
downloaded it and given it a shot. If you want a stable Struts Action 1
release and more to come, get off your butt and help out!
- Struts Action 2: With most of the IP code out of the way, we've
started some great discussions on features to include in the next
release. While this is important, we also need to get some sort of
release out by JavaOne. We need people polishing up the code, updating
wiki docs, testing examples, writing migration guides, and fixing bugs.
- Tiles: For such a popular framework, it is a shame how few people
contribute (only one active maintainer (!)). Greg is working on a
standalone version of Tiles that would support Struts, Spring MVC, or
anyone else. If you use Tiles, jump in and help Greg with the
refactoring. We definitely will be looking for committers when this
moves to Jakarta.
- Struts Shale (yes it is an equal Struts project, get over it): There
still hasn't been a GA release of Shale that I know of. We need people
writing docs, fixing bugs, and providing key feedback to help polish
this product.
My personal thanks David Evens for helping out with JIRA, Wendy Smoak
her hard work for the Maven 2 migration, Ted Husted for the Mailreader
migration tutorial and training materials, Toby Jee for keeping up with
bug fixes and working on the ww migration, Patrick Lightbody for the SAF
2 Maven 2 work, Phil Zoio for writing Strecks....these are people who
stepped up to the plate and put their code where their mouth is. Let's
grow this list!
Don
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