I'm always interested, but it's always been somewhere down my list of priorities :(
If Siegfried is able to drive it to release quality, I can likely start using it in a number of places which will increase my involvement. Thanks! Cheers, Brett On 04/01/2008, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 9:00 AM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Exec would need to migrate to proper first. > > >> > > > According to the website moving to proper requires an "active group > > > of committers" - I hardly qualifiy for that so I'm sort of stuck > > > > That was my concern > > > > > Therefore I see two options > > > > > > +) one existing committer teams up with me (preferred but rather > > > unlikely looking at the recent activity) > > > +) I leave commons-exec at it is in the sandbox and push out a > > > SNAPSHOT release > > > > IMO a SNAPSHOT release is not really what we want. But I guess we (as > > a community) need to discuss situations like these. The definition of > > active committers is rather vague in this context. After all we have > > quite some "one man shows" where other committers just help out. But > > not releasing "exec" does not sounds like a better option either. > > I agree the only option is really to propose promoting exec to become > a proper component and then release. For me the question is how likely > is Siegfried to stick around to support it? I would hate to see it > promoted and then it go inactive again shortly after. I know > circumstances change and there are no binding commitments here - but > stating an intention to stick around and look after it when proposing > promotion would make me more likely to vote for it (plus yours and > Luc's semi-interest helps). Looking at the commit logs, the people to > last work on actual code were Niklas Gustavsson (July 2006), Trygve > Laugstoul (Sept 2005) and Brett Porter (August 2005) - perhaps it > would be also worth pinging them to see if their interest can be > revived. > > Niall > > > Thoughts? > > > > cheers > > -- > > Torsten > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Brett Porter Blog: http://www.devzuz.org/blogs/bporter/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
