This may sound like a strange idea, but how about "advertising" for someone with those core db skills? You might argue that such people with the time and interest for such a project would have already found their way here, but maybe not. That there is an opportunity to play such a key role in a project like this, and make a crucial difference to the project's very survival could be very attractive to the right person, if they were made aware of it.
I'm not suggesting an ad in the New York Time, but maybe just a note dropped into some of the key newgroups, mailing lists, and forums that someone with such skills might frequent. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:07:18 -0700 >From: Kimbro Staken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: AW: Should Xindice be retired? >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >On Dec 5, 2003, at 8:58 AM, Mario Cormier wrote: >> >> That's how you lose the interest of competent potential contributors. >> I don't have the resources at this point to maintain a fork of >> Xindice. It makes sense to me to contribute part of my time to the >> project so it can improve for everyone (including me). It doesn't >> make sense to maintain my own Xindice on my own. If the powers that >> be have moved on to other things (which is their right) but are not >> doing what it takes for the project to go on living (which is sad -- >> none of the committers have committed anything for what, months?), >> then what's happening now is inevitable: some great people notice >> Xindice, try it out, try to make it work, want to contribute and are >> ignored, and then they move on. > >This hasn't always been the case, it's just the last year or so where >committer activity has been really sporadic that it's been a real >problem. Having active committers doesn't solve the core problem, for >that you have to have the right mix of committers. We had it, but >circumstances forced us to lose it and we never fully recovered. >Examining the project over the last year shows a different picture then >looking at it for the entire time. What I was speaking about is holding >committer interest to keep them involved in the project. That requires >a balanced set of committers who believe they can make real progress. >Supporting the rest of the community, and therefore finding new >committers, comes out of that. >> >Kimbro Staken >Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/ >Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice >XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org >
