Hi, Just thought I'd share this ... I'm following some other ASF mailinglists and saw an interesting post by Stefan Bodewig on the ant dev-mailinglist [1] "Topics for Talk at FOSS Backstage Micro-Summit in Berlin". He starts his mail with: "I'll be talking about learnings from 17 years of Ant and the challenges of aging open source projects."
This somehow sounded familiar to me :-), which is why I'm posting it here as potentially interesting to people in the Subversion community. If anyone in the Berlin area has a chance to go there, on Monday 20th of November [2], it might be worth it ... Some excerpts from his Topics-mail that struck a chord with me: [[[ * the power of user lists and the value of non-coding contributors ... * dealing with "drive-by contributions" ... * Aging project ... Finding new contributors becomes very difficult (and we may be making it hard for new folks to join). Committers age as well, prepare for losing them. ]]] Subversion is of course a different project in a lot of ways, but there are interesting similarities as well, IMHO. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201711.mbox/%3c87bmkme38h....@v45346.1blu.de%3e [2] https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-program-online-now -- Johan
