Unfortunately, what JMeter doesn't seem to attract long-term interest in ongoing development and project management. People want to make their specific changes and then that's it. Which is fine, but without someone or some backing interest around for the long haul, periods like this develop where JMeter languishes.
My personal opinion is that JMeter does not make a good Apache project, and would do better at Savannah or sourceforge with fewer restrictions and easier-to-manage development situation. It would be easier for me then to grant specific people commit privileges for short periods of time. As it is now, we have a list of committers who have not been seen literally in years, but it is too much hassle to go through the process of removing them. I have been surprised that no one has asked to become a committer recently, till this note. -Mike On 4 Dec 2002 at 8:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I would hate to see JMeter go. It's the best free web performance testing tool > I've seen. > > I have only recently joined the list. I would like to be a committer, because > I'd like to incorporate some code that would be useful for my current project > (and to others in the community, I would hope). I posted a patch to this group > about two weeks ago; however, as far as I know, it is languishing unnoticed. I > think that I will be contributing code somewhat regularly. > > I thought that the way it worked was that people would notice your > contributions, and after a few good ones, they would decide that it was getting > to be a pain to check in your code, so they would nominate you to be a > committer. Then, there would be a vote, and you'd get voted in. However, if > there are not three active, voting members, I guess that process wouldn't work > too well. > > Keith > > > > > Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/04/2002 08:00:04 AM > > Please respond to "JMeter Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Keith Cassell/360Commerce) > > Subject: The future of JMeter > > > > Hi, > > I've seen a few questions on this list recently asking about JMeter's > future. These are good questions to ask since it seems from my, lurking, > point of view that the project is fairly tenuous at the moment. > > For a project to survive at Apache, it needs to have an active development > and user community supporting it. I think it was clear that Mike was the > only really active developer on JMeter. This situation wasn't great since > with only a few committers, JMeter could probably not make an official > release. Mike's recent statement, however, suggests that the project is now > effectively unmaintained. I have seen only one other committer post to the > list and no recent commits. > > Who am I to be making these judgements? Until recently I was a member of the > Jakarta PMC and I am now a member of the Apache Ant PMC. I have a passing > interest in JMeter as I have needed load testing tools on some occasions. > > The future of JMeter is in your hands (You being the JMeter development > community, the subscribers of this list). What do you see as the future? Do > you want to develop JMeter? What is your level of interest in JMeter? > > Believe me, I don't know the answers to these questions and I'm not sure of > the way forward. Some level of interest is going to be needed to ensure > JMeter is viable. > > I also plan to ask these questions on the Jakarta general list to see what > external interest exists for the project which might be harnessed but I > thought this list should have a chance to comment first. > > if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. > > Thanks > Conor > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Michael Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: mstover_ya ICQ: 152975688 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
