On Tuesday 07 October 2008 17:15:43 Bryan Duxbury wrote: > I agree that we have a problem. I think that we might need more > committers, to be honest. There are a lot more libraries than there > are people in charge at the moment, so clearly any patch that needs > to get committed will have to go through one of these few people. It > would also be nice to have at least a clear point person for every > library so there's someone to email. I know that we have people in > charge of a few libraries, but definitely not all of them.
I completely agree with you. It's obvious that some of the people who report issues have a steady interest in improving particular areas of Thrift. For example, we at Fluidinfo use Python heavily, and have already contributed code that may not be of interest to all those who are subscribed to this list, but that might be useful to others who are not deeply involved in the Thrift community. I'm particularly thinking of our Twisted code (sorry if it sounds pushy, but it's just an example that describes this situation), which may help those who are already using Twisted and cannot use the standard blocking RPC mechanism that comes with Thrift. It's a relatively obscure combination (Thrift+Twisted), but we believe it could be useful. Also, we want to release more stuff that uses this as free software, but we don't want to track Thrift ourselves and maintain a forked version, though. Cheers.
