On Nov 23, 2007 4:54 PM, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rajith > > I appreciate your passion on these projects and I think you will make an > excellent PMC member.
Thank you Paul and Sanjiva for showing your confidence in me. I will continue to contribute as an when I can to the best of my ability. -- Regards, Rajith Attapattu Red Hat blog: http://rajith.2rlabs.com/ > > > Paul > > > On Nov 23, 2007 6:59 PM, Rajith Attapattu < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > > -- > Paul Fremantle > Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 > OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair > > blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com >
