Daniel F. Savarese wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin van den Bemt writes: >> The strength of this list should be is that with a lot of hands the chance >> tha >> t nothing happens when >> there is activity is minimized. If someone has an hour to spare, it could >> very >> well be useful to >> apply a patch and mentor people. > > Vadim has regexp covered and I have oro covered as far as maintenance > requests go, but no, I don't think either project merits its own > separate -dev and -user lists anymore. The trick is getting users who > want new features (as opposed to maintenance like bug fixing) to contribute > new features instead of always expecting the maintainers to add them > (e.g., Commons Net has been pretty successful in attracting user > contributed features). But regexp and oro are special cases which will > likely see no new features in the future, having been rendered obsolete > by standardization of the functionality they provide in the Java core api.
Good to hear it is covered.. So little happening atm that I didn't notice it :) > >> Since I don't like to extend the scope of the general list, I prefer dev >> discu >> ssion not to take >> place there. >> >> Thoughts ? > > As long as user traffic can go to general, it sounds okay. Most, if not all, > activity will be triggered by users (who won't be subscribed to dev), so > I'd think at least some threads should be permitted to start on general > and then migrate to dev if there is follow-on development related discussion. > Maybe a [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see general as being the list for jakarta wide discussions and not so much a list of asking specific questions about components.. Mvgr, Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
