Jon Scott Stevens wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, all Gump shows us is that projects have managed to > quit breaking each others interfaces. Gump shows us that documents such as > this: > > <http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/common/deprecation.html> > > ...have had an effect on people's mentalities. Those are not my issues with > Jakarta at this point.
My perception is the other way around. Documents like that were routinely ignored (sound familiar?) until somebody(*) took initiative to find an effective way to bring these issues to everybody's attention. I do have all of the published logs archived, and can provide copious examples to back up my belief. I also see this as the path to resolving a number of related issues. For example, find or create a style checker tool. I'll gladly run it nightly against all Jakarta code bases and publish the results. And one by one convince each project that it is their best interest for me to nag them on it. Not everybody realizes it, but getting people to accept nagging on cross project dependency failures was an uphill battle. At least one subproject even had a vote on it. - Sam Ruby (*) a significant portion of the credit goes to Jon Stevens who contributed the initial implementation of what became nag.pl. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
