Leveraging new C# and .NET features is what's lacking for me.
Not able to help myself, but I would support it if there was a continual drive to develop and maintain it. _____ From: Clinton Begin [mailto:clinton.be...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 1:27 PM To: user-cs@ibatis.apache.org Subject: Re: [NOMINATION/VOTE] New iBATIS.NET Committer Team Members I almost forgot: * Voting will remain open until Sunday, May 31, 2009 @ 11:59 GMT (midnight). Cheers, Clinton On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Clinton Begin <clinton.be...@gmail.com> wrote: The iBATIS.NET community is currently seeking new committers to continue the maintenance, development and innovation behind the future of iBATIS.NET I personally believe that iBATIS.NET can have a very bright future in the .NET community, perhaps even bigger and better than its Java counterpart. Why? * There is less competition in the space, and of what's there, only NHibernate is really relevant * iBATIS is complimentary, not directly competitive to NHibernate, so there's space for both in the .NET stack * Nothing Microsoft offers is similar or competitive to iBATIS.NET. LINQ to SQL was deprecated (IIRC), the Entity Framework is more competitive to NHibernate than iBATIS * Stored procedures are more common in Microsoft architectures, and iBATIS has always supported procs better than any other framework * C# is a more powerful and expressive language than Java, that creates a lot of opportunity to do great things with iBATIS.NET * C# features such as LINQ, Lambdas, Attributes and Anonymous types (to name a few) create a lot of opportunity for innovation To let iBATIS.NET fall would be a shame. The community has spoken, and they want a team to carry it forward. I myself would do it, if I was not already swamped with the Java version. Indeed, I envy the team that gets to build the next generation of iBATIS.NET. *** INSTRUCTIONS *** 1. Please nominate yourself in response to this thread, using the following format: I <Insert Name Here> nominate myself for iBATIS.NET committer. 2. Please respond to nominations with your vote, using the following format: +1 for <Insert Name Here> for iBATIS.NET Committer 3. I will tally the votes and submit the new committers to the PMC and assign commit privileges. Minimum of 3 votes per committer are required. We may decide to arbitrarily limit the number of new committers so it doesn't become a gong show. We may also require a second round of voting if it does turn into a gong show. :-) *** NOMINEES *** * As a nominee, be sure to vote for your fellow nominees! * There will be more than one committer, and no leader specified. * A leader will emerge through the meritocracy. * Over time, the leadership and perhaps all of the committers who make a difference will be added to the iBATIS PMC. *** Be honest with yourself and others. Expect to spend 6 - 12 hours a week on iBATIS.NET to work toward a new release! *** *** But if you're good enough to be a committer, you should be able to do it while watching Battlestar Galactica! *** *** We're a pretty fun team that's light in process, but high in principle. *** To expedite the process, fill out an ICLA form and submit it, following the instructions included on the form: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf Let the voting begin! Clinton Begin Apache iBATIS Chair, Committer and Creator
