Some views: You have a large blob of code with a small number of developers. Some suggest this means you need to get a sourceforge project and get a community going there, but I think that's poor if that's the only way.
My recommendation is that you find 3 Apache committers to sponsor your project, thus creating the minimum for a community. You also need to provide the source code for viewing, before you'll even find 1 committer who'll display a committed interest and, unfortunate as it is, you'll probably need an english-language version of the site to lure people in. That will get you one part of the system, a developer community, but your application also needs to be available for users to download for their own use so a user community may begin to build. With instructions on how to use etc. Whether this could happen in the incubation stage of the project, I don't know. The main incubator project I'm aware of [Tapestry] was a popular success when it joined and the only issue it had to solve was that of a small core developer community [1 person I think]. Hen On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Sascha-Matthias Kulawik wrote: > Hello, > > we've developed a XML-based Content Management System based on different > technologies like Cocoon, XML, EJB and a WebStart Client Application. It > is in our interest, that we contribute this project with about 200.000 > Lines of Code to the Apache Foundation. > I've already written to the Incubator project and I'm searching for a > sponsoring Apache member or a major project to get the project on the > road. > It uses a lot of Cocoon, so it might be a subproject of Cocoon, but it > might be run with another "Rendering-Engine" as well. As it is based on > XML Content it might be also interesting for the Apache XML project - > but most of the code is not related to XML anyway. > So the third project in the round - Jakarta - is comming in the light. > Just for your interest: > The project is existing since one year at our company as a closed source > application. > We've already running many websites with the CMS', but it was one of the > major interests of our initial customer, that we will open the source > for everyone. IMHO Apache is the best point for let the project fly into > the sky of open source. Currently there are three developers envolved > into the project and actually coding. > I have already done some stuff for different open source projects and > also contributed to the Apache James project - tried to reorganize the > IMAP4 code. (Because of my 16h/day fulltime efford on this CMS project > it was impossible to do anything else) > So let me know how I can show you how powerful this project is and how I > can convince you to become the CMS a subproject of one of your projects. > > Please let me know what else could I do to, if this is not the right way > for seeking a sponsoring Apache member. > > Regards, > > Sascha-Matthias Kulawik > JuwiMacMillan Group GmbH > > P.S.: The Name of the Product is "ConQuest", it's current Home Page is > http://conquest.juwimm.net and it is already in use at some customers of > us. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
