I'd like to start what I think is the first ever dual vote for two new Tapestry developers.
These are the shared attributes I think makes both of them a valuable addition to our team: -) Have been developing with Tapestry for a long time, active on the mailing lists. -) Are currently using the latest 4.1.2 versions in their respective employers products on a daily basis, providing valuable feedback in private / JIRA / as well as patches. Ben especially has been invaluable in helping get ognl 2.7 out the door. -) Have given me the general feeling of being fairly anal retentive when it comes to their code. A quality I personally value and think will mesh well with the standards Howard has already set up. -) Both have a long term vested interest in seeing Tapestry 4 come to maturation in real world large scale products / projects. -) Both have also been doing ajax related development for a long time already - starting with Tacos and now with the more recent features in the 4.1 series of Tapestry. Like most of the recent incoming committers (including myself) - Marcus also hosts his own Tapestry based open source project at http://honeycomb.javaforge.com/. This is a tapestry/hivemind based library for integrating hibernate. Though Ben isn't currently hosting any outside projects (that I know of) - he and his co-workers have been consistently and diligently providing tons of invaluable feedback / JIRA issues / patches for a long time. Even more importantly to me - I'd like one day to be able to contribute something to Tapestry 5 but don't see that happening until Tapestry 4 gets finished up. I've not had any feeling that either developer has a lot of radical ideas for changing things but more just that they'd like to see the existing functionality mature and stabilize, which is exactly the kind of development support we need to see Tapestry 4 come to a happy end. The vote will run for 1 week at which point I'll tally up the results and post them back to the list. Marcus Shulte: +1 Jesse Kuhnert (binding) Ben Dotte: +1 Jesse Kuhnert (binding) -- Jesse Kuhnert Tapestry/Dojo team member/developer Open source based consulting work centered around dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. http://blog.opencomponentry.com
