Scott, You are right. It is indeed an additional burden. One that we might be able to lessen with the help of others and some tooling. Maybe the infra group can assist in this with some additional scripts (or however they do it). They are already working on creating more insights (see http://status.apache.org).
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Scott Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Pierre this sounds like a wonderful idea but I don't think it's anything > that requires the PMC. I'm sure you could do a wonderful job and the > community would value your contribution. It's always important to remember > that everyone is capable of contributing and as a community we should all > feel free to lead the charge in any changes we'd like to see. It also > important in an open source community where all time is donated that we > don't try and unnecessarily burden others with requests that we could > easily perform ourselves. > > Many thanks > Scott > > On 3/10/2014, at 10:12 pm, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Having an opinion is good. But making strategic decisions, that affect > all > > readers of all the mailing lists, based on the gut feeling of one or a > few > > is hardly consensus building. > > > > Measuring the interest of the community in general and regarding OFBiz > > applications is a good thing. Reporting on these interests is even > better... > > > > Is the PMC capable and willing to report regularly (monthly/quarterly), > > let's say a top 10 of trending themes from the mailing lists (per mailing > > list)? > > This will surely help in gaining consensus about the liveliness of > > components. > > > > Regards, > > > > Pierre Smits > > > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > > Based Manufacturing, Professional > > Services and Retail & Trade > > http://www.orrtiz.com > > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Scott Gray <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> .... > >> > >> We have mailing lists and jira to gauge interest in a specific > component. > >> Code contributions in particular are very useful in determining > interest, > >> unless you're suggesting that the component is perfect and no further > work > >> is required. Everything in OFBiz has room for improvement and a lack of > >> contributions is very much an indicator of a lack of interest in my > opinion > >> and experience with this project. > >> > >> ... > >> > >> Regards > >> Scott > >> > >> > >
