100% Agree,
I see no point in commiting any patches as long nobody feels responsible
for reviewing & incorporating those into the svn-trunk. That would come
very close to a project lead as I had it in mind. Can be one person or a
group - I don't care as long there is some instance responsible for
steering the project. This involves some JIRA maintenance, code reviews,
discussions about the idea of the project (what should and what should
not go into droids-core), coordinating documentation efforts etc.
I wonder how many committers are still active around here?
Regards,
Paul Rogalinski.
Tony Dietrich wrote:
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,
++
