Dear fellow Tcl'ers
after the release of rivet 3.0 I would like to express my firm
determination to step down as chair of the Apache Tcl project. I didn't
want to manifest this intention before this release because I gave
myself the task of bringing rivet to a higher maturity level that could
make it available on every environment where the Apache HTTP web server
runs. Once this goal has been accomplished the time to speak has come.
In the last years my uneasiness has grown about the discrepancies
between my role at ASF (Apache chair and member) and my actual
contributions to this large complex and vibrant community. Though
sometimes interesting, discussions and issues that occur in this
community are now out of the focus of my main interests and I feel
increasingly some sort of discomfort in being part of this community
while hardly giving any real contribution to its life.
I will continue to give my contributions to rivet, I have in mind
several things to do and I plan to continue to adopt it for my web
related stuff. I just want to have a more centered role in it with
respect to my real efforts and abilities.
If anybody feels he/she would meet better than I did the demands implied
by the role of chair of the project, please step forward. If nobody does
I think this is the clear sign the project should fork to some other OSS
development community. This would probably also be the final act of the
project Apache Tcl, as Rivet was the only remaining active project
within it.
On the @private list a short discussion about this has taken place and 2
hypothesis have been made: either to move the development to Github,
where already lots of Tcl related stuff resides or to ask the Tcl
community to be hosted on core.tcl.tk, as one of the several fossil
repositories. Your opinions are welcome.
thank you for the patience of reading this long message
-- Massimo
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