-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, > > Here is a simple three point proposal that I hope will help formalize the > desires of any of the developers working on the project. Jason. Thanks for taking the time and putting this together! > For simplicity even though we haven't decided to use an apache style system, > it would probably be simplest to vote +1 if you agree and -1 if you don't. I > know that some people have already voted but the archiving of this is working > at mail-archive so this can be recorded for posterity. The archive can be > found here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/hsqldb-developers%40lists.sourceforge.net/ - -1 on the Apache style voting ;) > So please vote again, we'll let this go for a few days and see who votes and > than we can ping some of the developers that are listed on the project page to > see if we can get the view of all currently involved developers. > > i) The adoption of a meritocracy that roughly following the guidelines set > out here: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guidelines.html > > This entails having the developers decide the direction as a group, and make > decisions as a group as opposed to have an official project manager. Always > there surfaces a project leader which Fred and Michael are now, but things > should still be able to move forward in anyone's absence. +1 > ii) The strict use of mailing lists for discussions of development and > service of the user community. Most have agreed that mailing lists are in > fact much easier to deal with respect to managing the communication > channels. +1 > iii) The use of a single module in CVS. Right now the 'hsqldb-dev2' module > has been started which is an aggregation of all the code that has been used > for releases so far. I have tried to do this accurately but any addition > input is welcome. +1. I think you already have my feedback. > There are also a couple of issues that would be good to resolve: > > i) Clarification of what the HSQLDB development group actually is and if it is > a legal entity. Did Thomas Mueller start this group or was it started by this > project - -0. I don't really care if it is a legal group or not. > ii) Clarification of the license. How it differs from the original license > that Thomas Mueller attached to the code Is it different? I assumed it was BSD? > I don't think that it's anyone's preference to fork the code. I don't believe > Mark Tutt wants to be involved anymore but Fred agrees and we should make all > attempts to get hold of Michael for his input. +1. Would be nice to find out where Michael is. If he is in Afghanistan then I don't expect to hear from him for a LONG time as I am sure he will be busy. Kevin - -- Kevin A. Burton ( [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web - http://relativity.yi.org/ Please don't use hard tabs in your code. Instead use 4 spaces. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt iD8DBQE8GnEqAwM6xb2dfE0RAuTGAJ9YqSytoHXN/5uWRmFav6Vh2K7T0wCdEfp2 k/bZdUx5fhItLrxi1VdvtXU= =KACF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
