Hi all, I agree with all your points, Matt... I'd like to have more time to work on displaytag, but as you can see I'm often busy with work or other projects, and I can't always be present. I've not stopped development, but I also couldn't complete new releases in time as I would like to.
I'd really like if someone could help and become a committer, but I think that a developer should really want to support the project: many of the actual contributions have instead been written by people who needed a particular feature and most of them break other functionalities; _none_ of them has been submitted with a minimal junit test to show if it really works. I reviewed many patches but the time required to: 1) integrate them in displaytag code 2) write an exaustive junit test 3) be sure that this can't break other features (running or maybe adding more junit for existing features) 4) integrate documentation still requires a lot more time than simply "committing a patch". This is the reason why I'm so slow in accepting contributions and why I'm not so inclined to give cvs access to everybody. The actual developer list is long but probably Andy Pruitt was the only one who was able to contribute complete code to the new 1.x branch. I absolutely +1 on find new committers, but probably adding occasional contributors will only help increasing the developer list while decreasing the usability of the code. IMHO anybody who will show, with the quality of his contributions, that it deserve the role of a primary developer can be admitted immediately, elsewhere it will remain a contributor... about the lack of communication in the project: I will try to set up a wiki (as always, as soon as I can find the time) on the sourceforge web server, so that everybody will be able at least to contribute documentation, examples or extensions without being a developer. I will post my ideas on release plans and users can vote patches they want to be integrated in releases... do you think this could help? fabrizio (oh, about jira: I'd really like to migrate from the terrible bugtracker on sourceforge... if you Matt can host a jira instance for me it's absolutely ok) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: thawte's Crypto Challenge Vl Crack the code and win a Sony DCRHC40 MiniDV Digital Handycam Camcorder. More prizes in the weekly Lunch Hour Challenge. Sign up NOW http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;10740251;10262165;m _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
