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This has been the most activity on this mail list
that I have ever seen :)
I have followed this project since I corresponded
with Thomas Mueller a few years ago. It is a nice compact and portable
database which has great value and use. I am an extreme proponent of
open-source code where developers around the world can create their own
'David' together (if you haven't been to Florence, visit...). While not an
active promoter of patches, enhancements, or other direct input per se, I plan
on participating more in the future. This project has had a long history
and has an even longer and brighter future. The enthusiasm in everyone
lately is very encouraging.
I also follow other open source
projects around the world and would have to support such standards as
promoted by those wise fellows at apache.org.
Testing is worth more than most will admit,
and certainly JUnit supports it. Documentation is also most
always a second thought in any IT project, which can be beefed up with the
already suggested tools and standards.
Mailing lists are the only way to go for rapidly
communicating issues and notifications to everyone involved in the
project. We all do so many things in a day's time. Those who travel
are usually in at least several cities in a week and e-mail is perhaps one of
the few constants. These spontaneous e-mails tend to inspire the 'passion'
in such projects. It provides information as well as motivation to become
more active.
I hope the project becomes more active and hope
that the group will be more pro-active and aggressive in forming camaraderie and
esprit de corps. Certainly a mail list will support this. However,
structure and standards will make or break any project. I fully support
structure that is based on common sense and experience, and standards which
further and not impair the progress of such an admirable adventure. If
this sounds too philosophical, blame it on the Negra Modelo...
Eric
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