I've mentored many projects here at the ASF. Apache Raven had, by far, been the most pleasure. Pleasure for me means easy :-)
The community members should be extremely proud of what has been achieved here. Ross Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 30, 2011 8:29 PM, "Franklin, Matthew B." <[email protected]> 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 > > > > >
