Steve, Thanks for your feedback and I appreciate your passion about Synapse. I added my name to PMC on Paul's invitation. Thank you Sanjiva and Paul for appreciating what ever I have done for ASF.
First of all I don't work for money on Synapse, Tuscany or Axis2. All work was done during my free time. The past 6-8 months or so I was heavily involved in Qpid which is an incubator project. I am the release manager for this project and this project needs quite a bit of work to get it into a stable stage. Red Hat pays me to work on this. I need money to feed my family, so I see nothing wrong in that. But make no mistake, I strongly believe in Qpid and it's vision. I only comment on a mailing list if I have something to say, otherwise I keep quiet. I feel obliged to +1 what I felt was a good decision for the project. If I don't like something I will say so. My strong opposition to the IBM folks on Context hierarchy persistence is one such example. I was a bit disappointed about the comment on axis2 clustering :(. Clustering was my pet project. I spent hours of my free time trying to get a prototype working, lurking on WADI mailing lists and talking with Filip Hanik (tribes) and several others. I had to throw away two prototypes before coming to a compromise with the axis2 folks :) I spent several late nights trying to talk with folks on email/irc/IM trying to work out the details. The work wasn't visible until I got chamikara to commit them to the trunk after the necessary testing and modification.(kudos to him and Afkam) That is a good 6 months of work and almost a year of discussion. Sure my name my not be on the commit notice for the clustering code, but I am extremely proud that my ideas, initiation and prototype got into axis2. If I wanted my name then I could have committed it myself !!!!. >THere was one person sent a couple of mails to mail list and did one-liner commit or so. :) I may be wrong. I checked the archives at this time and the only commit I made was the clustering documentation for the 1.3 release. I did so bcos I wanted to get clustering included in this release, not to show that I am active. I was agitating to get clustering included from 1.0, but was unable due to not being able get my prototype working. I cannot work on 4 projects at one time. I need to spend time with my family too (plus I am trying to get my Msc going). If I try to do to many things at once I will only spread my self thin. I have a fairly big todo list to do. I know Ant wants me to finish the Tuscany JMS binding (hopefully haven't given up on it). I honestly tried to finish this off, but my discussions with Jeremy and Raymond didn't go anywhere in understanding the existing data binding framework. This time Ant/Sebastian has promised me help and will try to finish during the Christmas break if any one else hasn't done it by then. There is an AMQP transport that I am unable to commit to (axis2 or synapse) as Qpid is still finalizing issues. There is more clustering related things that I am unable to touch bcos of existing work. PMC member or not, visible or not, I will continue hacking on my pet projects. Axis2 is my first open source project and very I am proud of what ever I have done to improve it. Similarly I am passionate about every project that I work on, Synapse included. It is bcos I am genuinely interested in the project and believe in it's vision. Regards, Rajith. On Nov 23, 2007 10:24 AM, Steve Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 for Rajith attapattu as a synapse pmc. > > I have a concern over his intentions. I'm inactive listener in this > community for a long time. I have seen this name in axis mail lists > long time back. He did some axis stuff back then. i was knee deep in > a clustering issue those days. May be this is another person. I'm not > sure, but I think that was when he did that for some axis company back > then, may have been his paid work. After that he was no more. > > If I remember correct, one time axis people announced they are going > to trim inactive commiters. THere was one person sent a couple of > mails to mail list and did one-liner commit or so. :) I may be wrong. > But I remember this name because it was so funny suddenly coming up > this after a sudden. > > I feel like some poeple only intention is to have name everywhere. > Some people want to collect commiterships for CVs. :) Think Synapse > won't gain anything from this. I did some research on mail lists and > svn, there's nothinghe done on synapse. Only a few +1s and Ays given > occasioaly without any effective outcome. > > Synapse is cool and have a great future. The community would be lot > cooler without these issues hanging. Synapse members reconsider. Real > contributors and would be contribtors should deserve this. > > Cheers > > STeven > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Rajith Attapattu Red Hat Blog http://mutlix.blogspot.com/
