Hi, As I said on the incubator-general list, I think having conference calls for incubating projects or Apache projects in general is not an overwhelmingly good idea. More details inline.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 00:15, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Somewhat belatedly, just capturing a few notes from the skype conf call that > took place last Thu (crikey ... a week ago!) > <snip/> > > We then went around the "table" and introduced ourselves. Sorry, I didn't > take detailed notes, but my impression (and from following mails on > isis-dev) was that this was really worthwhile, and helped the community feel > like, well, a community. Except that for those not on the call, we now feel like not being part of the community. The community is here on-list and includes those lurkers and users not actively participating. At open source projects, committers typically represent less than 10% of the community, as you can derive from mailing list subscriber numbers. > I then did a screenshare to the call, and did a run-through of the key > elements of the architecture: core, defaults, alternatives, viewer; and > referencing JSR-299 for the terminology of "defaults" and "alternatives" > (we're hoping to refactor towards JSR-299 during incubation). Wow, this seems to be pretty important stuff for anyone interested in the project. Where can I find that information? In the ML archives? On the website? (Sorry, I'm new to the project.) >I also > described the different builds supported: mvn clean install and mvn > site-deploy, x-refing the wiki for details. > > We also talking briefly about the fact that we'll need to decide on a v0.1 > release, what's to go into it, and when to aim for. I promised to put some > posts on the ML about this (which I've still to do). Releasing is a pretty important aspect for any project. Time would have been spent much better posting to the ML directly instead of discussing it on skype and then waiting a week until posting. As was emphasized elsewhere, off-list communication is not forbidden and it will happen - as a matter of fact. I just want to point out its disadvantages. Thanks, Bernd
