On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 19:39 +0200, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi all, > > in case you're not subscribed to the general mailing list, > Henri Yandell has posted some statistics about Jakarta project > activity there: > > > Mail: (Aug 19 data) > > > > (includes commits, wiki, jira, bugzilla noise) > > > > 9486 - jakarta-commons-dev > > 3140 - jakarta-jmeter-user > > 2459 - jakarta-commons-user > > 1788 - jakarta-jmeter-dev > > 1512 - jakarta-httpclient-dev > > 1082 - jakarta-httpclient-user > > 901 - jakarta-poi-user > > 868 - jakarta-general > > 802 - jakarta-velocity-user > > 739 - jakarta-poi-dev > > 672 - jakarta-velocity-dev > > 580 - jakarta-slide-user > > 355 - jakarta-turbine-user > > 308 - jakarta-jcs-users > > 288 - jakarta-httpclient-commits > > [snip] > > > > SVN (Aug 11 data) > > > > 2273 - commons > > 747 - jmeter > > 282 - httpcomponents > > 159 - poi > > 129 - site > > [snip] > > We're the third most active project in Jakarta behind commons > and JMeter. And we have only one and a half coding committers. > That tells a lot about how much effort Oleg is putting into > this project. Thanks, Oleg! Hipp hipp hooray! x3 >
Small thing. Do not even mention. Number of commits is not very representative of one's contribution to a project and generally is not a very reliable measure of a project's health. I also do not see a _fundamental_ problem with only a few folks actively hacking and committing code, provided there is a sufficient number of people conducting more or less regular reviews of what gets committed. As far as I know most of the JMeter commits also come form just one committer, but the project is doing fine nonetheless, because there is a healthy number of regular contributors and reviewers, which ensures the negative feedback loop is in place. What I find very alarming is that we do not have even a _single_ regular contributor to the project, who may potentially aspire to become a committer. All my feeble attempts at bringing people on board to help us maintain stable HttpClient 3.x code base, thus enabling them to get gradually involved with HttpCompopnents, failed miserably. > But it also raises some concerns about the health of this > project. I hope that we can deliver a fully functional release > of HttpComponents eventually, and that more developers join > after that. > Until I see that happening, I will be in favor of changes that > have a prospect of bringing more people on board. In particular > Henri's suggestion of joining some developer mailing lists. > I'm not sure how well we fit with Taglibs and Velocity, which > is what he suggested, but I like the general idea of merging > some subcommunities. > I am not sure that is going to help much. My only hope is that more people will become interested once the first alpha of HttpClient 4.0 becomes available. Oleg > cheers, > Roland > email message attachment (Activity) > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Jakarta General List <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Activity > > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:30:57 -0400 (EDT) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
