On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]>wrote:
> What would it take for you to > become involved with TG itself? I really need to be using TG on a regular basis again. Fortunately I've started a new job and expect to be doing this quite a bit starting in the next few weeks. I'll probably need to take a while to catch up to developments made while I was "away", and I don't have a lot of open-source time available to begin with, but I'm hoping I can start actually contributing again, rather than just lurking, sometime in February. Also, what open-source time I have is going toward something else right now, a project I've been trying to get complete for a year and a half. I really want to get it done and off my plate before PyCon. So most of my FOSS time will probably go towards that in the immediate future, but one of my new year's resolutions was to become active with TG again, so I really hope to get that done soon. > What is holding you back from sending > patches, updating docs, etc? > Time, mostly. And the fact that I'm somewhat behind on the code. And the fact that I lost track of where exactly TG's repos were, back when there were several (but Google easily remedies that). I'm very encouraged by the recent discussion on the lists, though. It may take me a little while, but I'll get there. :) Michael, I'm really wanting to help out with docs and website reorg, so if you aren't done by the time I'm out from under my current time crunch (both at work and out), I'll try to help out. (Aside: It might be a good idea to make an announcement about the upcoming "reorganization" of the project (what's happening, who's going to be involved), once the details are ironed out. It may seem that such things aren't terribly important, but people like to know what's going on. Even more important, people like to know that _something_ is going on. I think one of TGs problems recently is that the dev team hasn't been communicating terribly well with the user base. This is understandable, considering various people's recent developments, but it should be addressed. Better to send out a few boring, mundane emails than to let people think TG is disintegrating or having a meltdown, or whatever ideas they might come up with on their own. In this case, Silence is most assuredly NOT golden. Even better would be to do this on a regular basis...maybe a "State of TG" message every month/quarter/whatever. You wouldn't have to call it that, of course.) Kevin Horn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en.
