Dan, I apologize for the flippant tone that seems to have confused the issue a bit.
The point of my email is to give you all a small poke in the direction of new committers. Whether that is a matter of evaluating people already in the community or marketing for additional participants. You folks settled into a Apache-friendly working style almost immediately, so I do indeed believe that you could graduate any time now -- once you have some experience in adding to the community. --benson On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Gotcha. Silly me. > > My view: much as though I'd love to be graduating, I think it'd be > dishonest to push for it right now. > > As I understand things, new committers are meant to be from the user > community, usually those who initially contribute a few patches and thereby > gain the trust of the existing committer base. > > While there are definitely a number of users who are enthusiastic about > Isis, none have yet expressed interest in being committers as yet. One > reason that's been mentioned is due to the complexity of the codebase > (which I think we need to continue to simplify). Note to self: we ought to > ask what other reasons there are... > > More generally, we don't yet have new committers because the user base > remains small. We know we need to continue working on marketing, and if we > do that then that will bring in more users and some of those will want to > become committers. It was gratifying to see that the mail I did on Friday > just gone publicising a blog post got retweeted by quite a number of > people, and did well on dzone. Hopefully a bit more of that sort of > activity will bring some more users and thence committers in. > > Thx > Dan > > > On 11 December 2011 17:32, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Dan... >> > >> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Dan Haywood >> > <[email protected]>wrote: >> > >> >> Hi Benson, >> >> Is this an email intended for Isis, or for Clutch? I'm confused.... >> >> >> > >> > It is for us :), Benson is referring to our podling status on Clutch, in >> > this context Clutch is only a tool :). >> >> Right. 'clutch' is the overview page for the entire incubator. >> >> > >> > >> >> Dan >> >> >> >> >> >> On 11 December 2011 17:22, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hey Isis community, >> >> > >> >> > Your line in http://incubator.apache.org/clutch is almost perfect. It >> >> > would be good if you'd look to fill in the remaining box, so I could >> >> > look to pushing you to graduate. >> >> > >> >> > -- one of your mentors >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Thanks >> > - Mohammad Nour >> > ---- >> > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep >> moving" >> > - Albert Einstein >>
