The problem is that ALL projects are ALWAYS desperate for help.  Its just
often they need help from a particular kind of person.  POI for instance
needs people who LIKE hex dumps and can think at a binary level.  That�s a
very small minority of Java developers.

Other projects have various other needs, but I doubt any project would say
"yeah, we're overstaffed"...

On 7/2/03 2:14 PM, "Brian McCallister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> It might be useful for projects who *need* help to let that be known in
> some easy-to-find way. Some projects are well staffed, some are
> understaffed. If you are involved with several of the project mailing
> lists it becomes more clear, but if you are say, a company who wants to
> contribute effort and talent it might be tough to figure out which
> projects need manpower.
> 
> While no project is going to be accepted into Jakarta without a
> development community around it, there are always places that need more
> help than others.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 02:00 PM, Howard M. Lewis Ship wrote:
> 
>>> Perhaps over time, he would get known and accepted in the
>>> community and
>>> someone would choose to nominate him for committer priviledges.
>>>  Obviously, that is something that Collabra would have very little
>>> control over.
>>> 
>> 
>> If you have someone with talent and a decent amount of time to spend,
>> my experience is that they can
>> become a committer pretty quickly.  If they are providing quality
>> mentoring and patches, it quickly
>> becomes easier to vote them in as a committer than to manually apply
>> their patches.  So if your
>> primary goal is to establish Collabra's rep and your incidental goal
>> is to be listed on the vendors
>> page, start now and see results soon.
>> 
>> --
>> Howard M. Lewis Ship
>> Creator, Tapestry: Java Web Components
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry
>> 
>> 
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