Agreed. (Hard to tell if you're positive or negative to TLP :) ). Moving Slide to TLP is quite heavily to help with the Jakarta community future and myself :) [well, technically the PMC and oversight rather than me].
Importantly I think it is only a minor change for Slide itself. Hen On 12/13/05, Ray Sprinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a user and someone who occassional submits bug reports and patches, I > don't see any difference to being a TLP. When I went looking for a content > manager 3 years ago, I found slide using google and browsing the Apache site. > I can't imagine choosing a CM without a lot of research and the difference > in visibility between Jakarta and TLP is miniscule. For myself, I have been > trying to figure out how to contribute the limited amount of time I have > right now towards getting the project moving again and I would much rather > this time went towards fixes and features than administrative tasks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:09 PM > To: Slide Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: TLP... :) > > Effectively you're saying "we're too inactive to be a TLP". Which is what a > lot of us are saying, and makes sense. As the more active subprojects have > gone TLP so Jakarta has evolved this way. > > There's an unspoken assumption that it's better to have low activity as a > Jakarta subproject than it is as a TLP, the Jakarta community as a whole > helps make up for things. This is where we're now wrong I think, the Jakarta > community is increasingly a disjoint set of subgroups, which again makes > sense as the active subprojects contained a lot of the crossover activity. As > we're increasingly disjoint, we're not able to make up for things and the > idea of being in Jakarta actually becomes a disadvantage not an advantage > because things are more hidden. > > An obvious solution is to create more of a Jakarta community, which I think > Commons can provide, but Slide (and some others) don't fit with this. > > So I think TLP for Slide makes sense. Activity is an important question to > get somewhat solved on the way, someone needs to be the chair (which isn't a > huge job for a tight and focused TLP), but other than that Slide could be > doing much the same it is doing now as a TLP and the increased visibility > might help get more interest. > > SVN restructuring is definitely perpendicular to a TLP move, unless you think > you'll be creating a subcomponent that doesn't make sense in a Slide TLP and > ought to go elsewhere. Even then it's not a biggy, we can take care of it > later. > > Hen > > On 12/13/05, Daniel Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I can tell there is not much developer activity in the Slide > > project at the moment. As Oliver resigned as release manager there is > > nobody pushing the 2.2 release. > > The SVN should be restructured as once discussed. I don't know if I'll > > personally find the time to work on the project and do things that I > > have in mind for a long time. > > Before thinking about moving Slide to TLP we should sort these things out. > > But in general I think it's still a good idea. > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > rg] Im Auftrag von Henri Yandell > > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:41 > > > An: Slide Developers Mailing List > > > Betreff: TLP... :) > > > > > > A fair while back, the plan was for Slide to move to TLP. Where is > > > that nowadays? What reasons are there for it being bad to go ahead > > > and push on with that? > > > > > > Hen > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
