I like coding. But i hate mailing lists. :-) Am 13.11.2013 um 08:00 schrieb Brett Porter <[email protected]>:
> 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 >
