I would prefer JIRA activity to be on another list. I've heard from quite a few people in my User Group that they dropped off dev@ people of the noise of JIRA. I think those of us who want to know what is committed will subscribe to those (plus, it makes filtering those messages into a separate folder easier ;P )
-Nick On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 5/28/13 10:25 AM, "Greg Reddin" <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> Greg, do you think donations like these need to have a goal of being > >> integrated with Apache Flex or becoming its own project? Personally, > >>I'd > >> be ok with Apache Flex being a warehouse of all kinds of Flex-related > >>code > >> even if there is no active development for it. > > > > > >There's a couple of things to consider here: > > > >1) The board does not favor "umbrella" projects. Jakarta was an umbrella > >project and it contained (at one time) Struts, Tomcat, Commons, JMeter, > >and > >a whole bunch of Java-related projects. It became clear that the Jakarta > >community was too fragmented to get consensus so it spun off all those > >projects into TLPs. That could easily start to happen here. > That would make sense for Jakarta, especially if there was active > development on all of those pieces. I'm not sure that will be the case > here. I think there's a good chance that these application frameworks may > not have much activity. > > For me, incubation was so much work that it seems easier to take these > code donations and see if a community forms around it and then spin it off > than going through the whole > proposal/initial-committers/mentors/infra-setup/graduation process. > > > > >2) This mailing list is already too high-traffic to follow. Practically, > >we > >could probably already split up the Flex project into multiple projects. > >It > >seems to me that folks are starting to gel around different efforts, like > >getting new releases of the SDK, vs. compilers, etc. It could be that we > >need to form new PMCs or it could be that we just need to enact > >sub-projects. But we have to be careful with sub-projects to avoid point 1 > >above. > What are your thoughts on just having more mailing lists? We toyed with > the notion of having all JIRA activity on a different list. I haven't > looked at the stats, but Erik and I haven't done much > Falcon/FalconJX/FlexJS work over the last two weeks and I'm not sure > there's been less activity on the dev list. > > -Alex > > > >
