Hi Raphael, Thanks for checking in. You were right in another message, I was on holidays.
There are people here willing to develop on the project, but time comes and goes for each. When we first brought the project into Apache, there was interest from several others, including some Apache committers, but it waned - and though we get occasional patches from new people, we've had trouble getting them on as committers. I'm glad to see the interest sparked by your message, which I'll respond to separately. In terms of mentors, we've gradually lost them over time, and I was unsuccessful in recruiting new ones from general@. We very much need an active mentor to keep us honest :) I hope you'll volunteer... For the overall status: We need to ship 1.5.0. Unfortunately, while the Windows build slave was broken for a while some changes were made that broke compatibility. They are good changes, but the regressions need to be fixed to ship a release. Aside from that, the project is reasonably stable. There are additions here and there for new releases that come out, and some potential architectural changes to take advantage of recent developments in .NET and Maven and cruft to clear out, but otherwise it pretty much does what you need it to do. That can make it hard to attract new contributors. One thing that could be improved is Mono support. While some things exist, the existing developers don't use it - so that's an area for new contributors to get involved. Another challenge I've found is that contributors tend to interact purely over JIRA or even reach out over Skype. It has been difficult to get more happening on this list as it should. I'll put this in as a report for this month if it is not too late. Thanks again for following up. Cheers, Brett On 8 Nov 2013, at 2:03 pm, Raphael Bircher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > My name is Raphael Bircher. I'm from the Incubator and doing shepherding for > this project this month. In my review i saw nearly no activity in the last > three months. There is also only one mentor who is inactive since one year, > (according dev ml). > > The big question is: Is here still some willing and energy to develop this > project, or not. > > You have not filled the bord report now, pleas do it. I will do my shepherd > report anyway, and bring the topic to the incubator list. > > Greetings > Raphael -- Brett Porter @brettporter http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter
