The few/none bug reports in 1.3.1RC shows how stable it is. It would be nice to have a 1.3.1 final for other projects to rely on.
This thread points to a set of open wishes and non-commited/accepted patches, as well as a missing active lead to further development for the project. (Daniel, please do not use harsh words twards Geir, he has been a great lead and made the velocity project succeed and was very responsive. Now that things work form him as he desired, he should be allowed to follow other interests...).
Since this is open source we need (new) active committers.
I suggest that the current committers consider some of the proposed enhancements and clearly *say* that this or that should become part of a future rlease (in the status page?). Anyone that has the itch (I do, for example) can signal the dev-list that he would like to implement and send a patch for a specific feature (coordination over the list avoids duplicate work).
If a patch is good, the committers can call for a vote to win this submitter as another commiter. This would bring life again into velocity.
Sincerely Christoph Reck
Daniel Dekany wrote:
Friday, February 28, 2003, 9:31:12 AM, xMySign for Velocity wrote:
As said above: There are some who want to contribute but cannot because their patches are not reviewed or there is no development plan.
so what to do, to turn out of this dead end street?
IMO the project has to look for new lead developer. When the leader lost his interest or simply he has no time to fulfill his task, the project needs a new lead. Yes, it is hard to find somebody, I guess, but as far as it is not stated cleanly and explicitly and it is not clean for everybody, you have even less chance to find somebody. Maybe you can even mention this one the Index page, but of course the candidate has to prove his skills on the dev list... yeah, sure, not an easy thing. But, for example, it has already happen with F<censored/>r, AFAIK for 2 times, and I'm sure that the product would not be in such good shape as now without it.
Of course, the people who should actually initiate this (i.e. to find new lead) is the current lead, Geir. And I have to stress that the idea is not that Geir has to go -- in practice he has already gone anyway -- but that somebody has to come.
I think Velocity is it worth to find a way out. It's
no surprise that no one is interested to submit patches
if these patches don't have a chance to beeing accepted
because no one reviews them! I really don't think that
there are too few contributors, but someone has to lead the developing process.
-- :) Christoph Reck
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