On 3/15/14 6:13 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>Hi, > >> As you know, we are all 'individuals' with differing priorities, >>schedules, and responsibilities. >Sure and they are free to ignore the email if they are unable to help but >I do think the email needs to be from the PMC. I think if they are still lurking you have already gotten their attention. If they are not listening at all, this won't help. I'm not clear a signature from the PMC will be a difference maker. That said, we haven't had a "what would it take to get more contributions" discussion in a while. Anybody up for another round? Maybe the lurkers will offer some good suggestions. IIRC, in the past, the Flex SDK code was considered a pretty scary place because if its interdependencies. Mustella was also mentioned since folks had trouble getting it to work locally. The CI servers have helped there, but if you're tight on time, it is still scary to commit because if a test fails you may not have scheduled time to wrestle with it, especially those odd bitmap failures. IMO, it is similar as to why we probably don't have pictures for everyone. If you haven't already got the repos, you wonder if the setup time to get that first commit could be significant, especially if you break something so you don't even try. That's why I never got my picture in there until I discovered I was accidentally in the mentors row. That and the notion of dropping all the way to the bottom half of the team page motivated me to take time to fix things. It will be interesting to see if FlexJS can bring in more contributors and maybe wake up some of our less active committers. The code should have fewer interdependencies. Pieces are smaller and changes are less likely to break things. If FlexJS is better integrated with Maven that might also help. That's why I haven't written any FlexJS components in a long time. I'm totally focused on getting infrastructure like the installer and now a checkintest so we can reduce barriers to entry for future contributors. At ApacheCon I hope to make progress on Maven for FlexJS/Falcon. -Alex
