For the Wiki, links are all well and fine, but we need to keep in mind that the board report is text only.
On 04.02.2010 09:37:29 Helder Magalhães wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > [Clay] > >> '''Batik''' > >> > >> - Helder Magalhães was voted in as a new committer. A new release, > >> consolidating bug fixes and small improvements, would be good, but due to > >> lack of committer time, no release was made. > >> + Helder Magalhães was voted in as a new committer (congratulations > >> [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/contributors.html|Helder]]!). A new > >> release, consolidating bug fixes and small improvements, would be good, > >> but due to lack of committer time, no release was made. > >> > >> '''Fop''' > >> > >> - Pascal Sancho was voted in as a new committer. A new release is overdue, > >> but due to lack of committer time, no release was made. > >> + Pascal Sancho was voted in as a new committer (congratulations > >> [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/team.html#ps|Pascal]]!). A new release > >> is overdue, but due to lack of committer time, no release was made. > [Simon] > > I agree, but do you really think that we need to report this to the > > ASF board? > > I don't really know about that (congrats could be left out, although > IMHO it's cool to have a link to click on in order to get some more > information on a given person. I might suggest reworking the congrats > to a link in the new committer name: > > [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/contributors.html|Helder > Magalhães]]! was voted in as a new committer. > [...] > [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/team.html#ps|Pascal Sancho]] was > voted in as a new committer. > > > I didn't see the statistics from the previous thread in the report: > > «As you see, the number of FOP commits and the activity on fop-dev are > rather lower than last quarter. User lists were active again.» > > Including the preceding links, of course. :-) > > > I'd also urge the need to increase active committers, in order to try > pushing out new releases, as existing committers seem to be very busy > at the moment. As for the Batik community, Jonathan Wood seems to be > interested in that, although no actual proof has been given yet (but > that somehow applies to me as well! :-D ). I'm not really aware of > this within the FOP community (regarding users active beyond usual)... > > > Cheers, > Helder Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
