An interesting new article in Lwn.net by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier. https://lwn.net/Articles/458974/
There are a couple factual errors there in describing our project: 1) The article claims that we have not added any committers since the project started Obviously this is not true. It is easily to verify by looking at our recent reports: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2011 (72 committers) http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2011 (71 committers) http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2011 (56 committers) You don't need to take off your shoes and count on your toes to see that we have more committers than when we started. 2) The article claims that we don't have an issue tracker set up yet But if you click on the "bug tracking" link on the home page you will end up here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/bug-tracking.html I'm not sure there is anything we can do to make this more obvious. Either of these errors would have been easily avoided if "Zonker" asked a question on this list or attempted to contact Apache. He seems to have followed the list traffic enough to pick out a few negative points, but then misses the discussion on the list of our monthly reports, or that fact Bugzilla has been migrated. Of course, journalists of all stripes are busy people, with deadlines and not a lot of time to fact check. So anything we can do to make progress on the project more obvious to the casual visitor might be a good thing. For example, when we have something as significant as the successful Bugzilla migration, maybe that should get a blog post? Maybe we can try to establish a regular cadence of posts, say every two weeks? If we make people dig through the mail archives for news, then we make it difficult for them and they will make dumb mistakes. They are not experts in our project. We are. So anything we can do to give them per-digested, factual of course, but more easily consumable information is of great help to the working journalist. -Rob
