Danny Angus wrote: > Perhaps thats because the direction is not changing, are the goals of the > project still the same, are the subprojects all still moving steadily > forward? > > They seem to be, and this would be a good reason for not interfering, after > all there are no deadlines except those imposed by individual projects and > few imperatives of the kind which, in the commercial world, need to be > enforced by PM's.
I agree. Personally, I don't see that anything is broken. Things don't happen as quickly as any of us would like, but they are happening. Struts now supports Velocity along with JavaServer Pages. Turbine is exposing more of its components, and Torque may graduate to a subproject in its own right. Avalon is up to speed, and just made a significant release. We've added BCEL, Lucene, and others to our midst this year. Doug Cutting was going to step back from Lucene, but it looks like we've drawn him back into the game ;-). The Commons has made several releases, and is actively whiteboarding severl exciting new products, like the Workflow and DynaBeans. I think the newsletter will help bring more of this out. There mis ore good news than people imagine. We just don't blow our own horn much. What would also help, I think, would be if we published more of our statistics. I know Vincent was working on a download stats page once. I've also seen people post interesting statistics about the posts to the mailing lists. A snapshot of how many commits are being made and number of unique committers making them would also be interesting. And other things, I'm sure. Now, if I only had the faintest idea of how to automate something like this ... -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Building Java web applications with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
