Thanks Matt for putting this together and Happy new year to all. Raminder On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote:
> Since New Year's day is this Sunday, I thought it appropriate to reflect on > all that we have accomplished in the last year: > > * Organized individuals from multiple organizations, many of which were not > familiar with the "Apache Way" > * Constructed and submitted the incubator proposal > * Transferred IP for 3 complete portal code bases to Apache > * Built a working system from scratch > * Committed to SVN 677 times > * Wrote over 34K lines of actual code > * Received over 1400 non-JIRA related messages on the DEV List > * Created ~400 issues in JIRA > * Resolved ~280 of those issues > * Shipped 4 releases, have a 5th awaiting incubator approval and a 6th ready > to go out in early January > * Participated in multiple hackathons and bar camps > * Had community members speak about Rave at 3 conferences > * Voted in 2 new committers/PPMC members > * Received multiple patches from community developers > > Needless to say, this is an impressive list of accomplishments for any group > of people, let alone a disparate set of individuals from multiple companies, > countries, timezones and backgrounds. I can't help but imagine that if we > can get this much done while learning how to work together at Apache, what > does 2012 hold for us? > > I would like to thank everyone involved in the project, the committers, PPMC > members, community submitters, users and especially the mentors. Without > everyone's hard work, dedication and willingness to work together, this > project would never have gotten off the ground; let alone reach its current > state. > > Let's build on the enormous success of this year and really turn up the heat > for 2012. > > Happy New Year! > > -Matt > > > >
