While there may not be an official 'post' of project leader, it has long been my experience that any project benefits from someone to co-ordinate it, motivate the contributors, arbitrate disputes and provide direction.
This applies equally to open source projects such as Droids. One of the missing factors in this particular project which probably contributes significantly to the lack of uptake is the lack of documentation. No-one LIKES writing tech docs, but without them it makes it extremely difficult for anyone to adopt the technology without investing huge amounts of time. I've been monitoring this project for some time, as a mature Droids implementation would be useful in another project I'm involved in. I understand the objectives - but simply haven't the time amongst other projects to delve into the code to figure out how to actually use Droids. A simple example project would be of great use to adopters. <just my observation> Tony Dietrich -----Original Message----- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22 November 2010 11:04 To: [email protected] Cc: Droids Dev list Subject: Re: Who take the lead ? We don't have leaders in ASF projects. What is needed is for people to participate. If those who have shown interest are not committers then they need to submit patches and existing committers or mentors will deal with them until we vote in new committers Let's see those patches... Sent from my mobile device. On 22 Nov 2010, at 09:46, florent andré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are many to be interesting in this great Droids project and have many > ideas for the future (recent mails show this). > > Thorsten, thanks to him, leads this project till now, but don't have > still much time for it (and we understand him ! :) ) > > So, I think it could be cool if someone (or two, three,...) with enough > karma, can charge of taking the lead of this project. > > Have a lead is a requirement to ensure a good growing of "baby Droids" > imho. > > Cheers, > ++
