Hi Folks, On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:03:21 +0100, TRANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see that Ross Bramford is not even listed as a project member any > more --let alone the maintainer. So that means things fall back to > Sean Chittenden -- but is he around? I see three other members listed: > > Dan Janowski > Laurent Sansonetti > Pat Eyler > > Are any of you guys around? > > I fear there's no one at the hem again, but there are still important > issues that need to be addressed. From the looks of it there hasn't > been a commit since January, though there have been patches offered up > on this list since then. > > What's the word? > Well, I was removed from the project a while ago, I think when it became clear that circumstances wouldn't allow me to put in the time even to apply patches anymore - I've been unbelivably busy these past months with work, and although I hoped to still have a little time to spend on my OSS commitments, my now-five-month-old daughter had other plans :) Things are a little quieter now (on the work front at least) and I am planning to get back into things, but I do honestly doubt I'd be able to devote as much time as previously. I haven't heard from Sean for a while (my last few emails to him went unanswered) and there are still a number of fundamental problems with libxml-ruby - mostly to do with the fact that libxml and ruby are constantly fighting over memory management and the like. I want to say I'd come back to the project, but I simply don't have the time to do it justice as sole maintainer. When I first joined libxml-ruby I said that I didn't want to lead the project, but was happy to help. Over time, as people's commitments changed, that's pretty much what happened. The result is that when my circumstances changed suddenly (as they often do) the project was left in the crisis we have today. I would be willing to come back in a 'code-caretaker' capacity - committing patches and the like, perhaps fixing the odd bug, but that still leaves a lot of work that needs to be done: someone needs to watch the trackers, and maybe filter out 'not a bug's or do preliminary investigation on new bugs/feature reqs. The forums on Rubyforge seem to be filling up somewhat. Test coverage needs to be improved. The project needs to be promoted, and whatever passes for 'PR' in open-source needs to be taken care of in general. These are all things I can't guarantee any time for, and things that don't involve writing C. The Windows issue matters, too, but since I've been lucky enough to avoid Windows almost entirely in my professional life for several years now I don't really know the platform well enough to handle this, and frankly I'm unwilling to take the time to learn for the sake of compatibility on one project. Another thing that needs to be done. A lot of good work was done on libxml-ruby, as recently as Laurent's reader contributions, and it'd be a shame to see things grind to a halt. I'm willing to help make sure they don't, but what we really need is people involved in all that other stuff I talked about above. -- Ross Bamford - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
