As a committer and a person who likes everything that I am committed to doing, to be a success, I understand your concerns.
XAP is a relatively young project even from the stand point of Apache. The initial code for the project was only the basic foundation of what was needed to in order for others to make use of XAP in their projects and work. Over the last 5 months the committers have been working heads down on making the code useful to the population at large. We are just starting to see the work payoff and will be doing more in the way of getting people started with the project. I, as you would like to see more outside (of Nexaweb) people contributing to the project. It would be great to collaborate with others on the project. Things that I think we (XAP) can do make XAP accessible and visible: 1.) Utilize other Apache projects in XAP and also contribute enhancements to existing Apache project with XAP functionality. Apache as a whole has a great number of resources and people to draw from; it would be nice if they were involved. 2.) We need to make sure that we can make it easy for people to start using XAP in their projects. If others don't see XAP as beneficial to them, they are less likely to get involved. We have seen some people start using XAP and I have been talking about it every chance I get. 3.) Get some 3rdparty visible applications built on the project. Showcase it benefits. 4.) More public communication between XAP committers via the mailing list. If anyone else has suggestions, please offer them up, I look forward to hear them. Bob (Buffone) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Cooper Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: The health of XAP I'm growing a little concerned about the health of XAP. Certainly there is some level of activity, but it all appears to stem from only Nexaweb people. For example, if we exclude the mentors, none of the non-Nexaweb people from the original proposal, who are therefore now XAP committers, have shown any activity at all. The only people who are active are those from Nexaweb; all of the commits, all of the bug reports, and almost all of the e-mail has come from them. I could probably count on my fingers the number of other people I've seen on the mailing list. Now, don't get me wrong; there's nothing wrong with the Nexaweb folks being involved. On the contrary, it's good to see that they're still around, and active and involved. My concern is that we don't seem to be growing any community around XAP. It was good to see Bob Buffone give a little spiel on XAP at ApacheCon in Austin. I'd hoped that that might bring some folks over here to see what's going on. Sadly, that doesn't seem to have happened. So, what can we do? How can we attract more attention to XAP, and get more people involved? Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Martin Cooper
