On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Simon Kitching wrote:
Hi All, There have recently been some discussions about handling dormant/dead commons projects. And I've been wondering about the activity levels of some projects recently (whether they are dead or not). It's hard to track activity by email volumes, and subversion commit counts can be misleading for two reasons: * some commits are done to fix widespread issues such as copyright dates, while not actually indicating activity on a project * some projects are perfectly stable, and so have low activity counts though they are by no means dead and still have maintainers around. I've got a suggestion to make about tracking this. We could put up a page on the wiki (or maybe directly on the jakarta-commons main page) listing all the projects (main and sandbox). Next to each project would be listed the currently active developers and a date.
I have a big problem with putting people's names beside projects and components on a public web page. Besides being yet another thing that needs to be kept up to date, it will only encourage people to contact the developers directly, instead of using the mailing lists. From my own perspective, this is a huge problem already, and I'd be -1 to anything that's going to further exacerbate it.
-- Martin Cooper
People would be expected to regularly (as often as they like but at least every 3 months) go to the page and update the date next to their name for projects they still are actively involved in, and remove their name against any projects they no longer do anything on. By "actively involved" I mean that they respond to bug reports or patches submitted for the project, not just that they are currently coding on it. Periodically (eg before the board report is due) the Jakarta PMC chair can post a few mails reminding people to update their details. And then names where the dates get too old can be removed as they clearly aren't responding to those prompter emails. A quick look at this page by users or apache people would show the stability of projects: zero, one or multiple maintainers. It doesn't seem an unfair burden; I'm happy to update 3 or 4 lines on a wiki page once every 3 months. Anyway, it's just a thought for the PMC, Henri, etc. to follow up on if you think it's worth doing for us or the users. Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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