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> Am 08.10.2013 um 19:04 schrieb Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com>: > >> On 10/8/13 9:48 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote: >> 2013/10/8 Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> >> >>>> On 2013-10-08, James Carman wrote: >>>> >>>> How about this for an idea? What if instead of waiting until *after* >>>> a new JDK comes out (and in some cases MANY years later), we start >>>> with pre-release versions in a branch or something to start using the >>>> new language features? >>> Maybe I'm just naive, but what exactly is stopping anybody from doing >>> that right now? Or stopped anybody four years ago? >>> >>> I think we lack people coding up said features not rules that would >>> allow such work. >> Right to the point, Stefan... But how can we attract more people? I've >> expressed what I think can be done [1]. Any other ideas? > > I would say go for it if you have the time and energy to push these > things along. Here is one more idea: > > Commons started as a place for ASF committers to work on shared / > reusable stuff. Most of the original components were actually > extracted from other projects. Many of our most "committed > committers" over the years have been ASF ppl using "the commons" > this way. In recent years, for various reasons - some having to do > with our painful release process, some "reuse" sort of going out of > fashion - this has trailed off quite a bit. We should ask ourselves > what we can do to attract more ASF committers to Commons. I am sure > some of the things you mention above might help, but I bet there are > other things we could do for that population specifically. Maybe > simply asking on community@ or members@ and directing people here to > continue discussion might help. This is a very good idea. I'll write something together when I find the time. > Another thing we could do is to > come clean about which components have insufficient "community" to > support them. There may be projects that use some of these things > with committers interested in helping keep them alive. You have proposed to focus on our core components a few times now. I thing this is also a good idea which deserves it's own thread. Benedikt > > Phil >> >> Benedikt >> >> [1] http://markmail.org/message/tda7qqjnkwwzwvua >> >> >>> Stefan >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
