On 11 December 2011 18:27, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan, > > I apologize for the flippant tone that seems to have confused the issue a > bit. > No probs; I was just being dumb. > > 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. > Indeed. I know we'll get there, and I hope we're providing enough evidence to our mentors that we will, in time. > > 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. > That's nice to hear, thx. Dan > > --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 > >> >
