I have committed a few patches in the past and try and read the list, I havnt had time to respond lately as I've begun a brand new project and all my time was focused to it, however now that I am back and beginning to integrate Displaytag into my new project I will likely be more active posting up patches and information.
I do agree Fabrizio has done an amazing job and is a great leader however I have submitted a few patches that have been rotting for months in the requested features area. One in particular I feel is amazingly useful and could solve at least 25-30% of the problems I see running across the user forum. However due to it not being implemented I cannot suggest using its functionality. There are also a couple other good patches that are nice too, such as specifying the class to use as a comparator for a column, as well as preserving sorting/pagination across a session if you surf to another page and return. Good stuff, also my main one but I won't take time to explain it, my user name is halcy and its under Feature Request. I'm more than happy to help when I have time, and very happy to help in forums if I can, I just hope we can get rolling some of these changes in soon. -David Erickson btw I still have my source code so I can create a new patch rolling in those 3 changes against the current code if need be. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:36 AM Subject: [displaytag-devel] DisplayTag Support and Development > All, > > This project is a definite success as a lot of folks are using and > contributing to the displaytag. However, the development is > concentrated to Fabrizio - who seems to be available only > intermittently. As for support, I seem to be the only developer > answering e-mails and forum postings and there's a lot of questions I > can't answer b/c I didn't write the code and don't feel like digging in > to try and figure out the answer. In essense, it feels like 1) none of > us are using the display tag or 2) the tag is working for us so we don't > have any more itches to scratch and don't contribute. I'm definitely in > #2 - it does everything I need it to do. > > In order to revive life into this project, I suggest we contact a couple > of the active patchers or users and see if they want to become > committers. The best way to get enthusiasm (IMO) is to get folks that > are using this everyday, especially in high-data situations. What do > you think? > > Fabrizio - I think it's great what you've done with the code, but we > need to release 1.0 soon and get on with 1.1. I also think we need to > take procedures to release more often in the future. It seems like not > much is happening, yet we're holding up the release. Since you wrote > most of the code, I think you need to take a more active role as project > leader - where you notify the group of target dates, milestones, and > where you'd like help. Right now it seems like you're a one-man team > and a lot of us don't know where to help. Sure we can dig into the > bugs, but I feel like I have to get your approval for a lot of stuff > before I commit it. Please help us help you. > > This e-mail is motivated by some talk I've been seeing lately where > folks are bagging on this project saying the code is great, but the > developers are unresponsive and releases are slow. > > Feedback is appreciated, > > Matt > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > _______________________________________________ > displaytag-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
