Sylvain Wallez wrote:
However, Apache is about healthy developer communities, and as Niclas
said, you will have to make yourself redundant by accepting new core
developers and helping them to become fluent with the internals of
your baby so that it becomes their baby too.
I'm stating this to be sure that you're well aware of this. Apache is
not a better place for you to work. It's a place where a healthy and
diverse developer community will have to emerge for a project to exit
incubation.
My goal is to become less necessary. Ultimately, as an academic
researcher, I have to do more than just implement a spec.
However, I will always care about the direction that it takes. My main
focuses with Oscar have always been to keep it simple and very easy to
use, but at the same time use it as a platform to find the best approach
for creating such a platform and possibly influencing the future
directions of the spec or other such platforms. These issues are key
parts of the Oscar philosophy.
I am not content to merely implement the spec. :-)
The fantasy situation is that the project gains contributors for all of
the pieces that I don't want to implement and I retain the fun parts
that I love to implement. Of course, I realize that this won't be the
case. :-)
-> richard
