> On Oct 11, 2013, at 8:23 AM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Question for James - how many new committers did they get? Random drive by >> pull requests won't help us. We already get more patches than we can >> evaluate and apply in a timely fashion. The key question is will the git >> move net us new committers. I suspect the answer is yes but it would be >> great to hear from others that is the case. > > I don't know, but I'll see if I can come up with the numbers. > > One thing to keep in mind with those numbers is that Apache Camel is a > lot less "approachable" than most of the stuff here at Commons. Our > projects, for the most part, are made up of common little bits of code > that most folks have either written or thought about how to write on > their projects (thinking of stuff like StringUtils and the like). > Camel's code, when you start digging into it, is very difficult to try > to understand (not saying it's poorly written or anything; it's just a > tougher problem space).
Definitely relevant for math, pool, DBCP which are getting better but still have an "approachability" problem. Phil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
