Brian Behlendorf wrote: > If there really is still just one outside committer, then in my opinion > the community has not yet passed that test; and rather than coding, > those who care about that project should be advocating its existance to > others, giving presentations at conferences,
Pity my Derby internals proposal was rejected by Apachecon Europe :-) >The solution there is to slow down the pace of coding and do more community > development, and ask "why are there so few other developers?". There are actually four committers (I'm one) and five other developers who are employed by IBM and work on the database internals code, and there are 219 people subscribed to Derby's developer list, and posts from 228 authors this year. So it's not a case of 'so few other developers', some of those developers are contributing patches for bugs and features and are progressing towards being committers. Derby seems to have a reasonable number of people subscribed to its developer list compared to other Apache projects, from looking at Ken's mailing list page, I think Derby is around 25th based upon number of subscribers out of all active Apache developer lists, and most above it are in the 240-300 range, so Derby is in line there. Derby is possibly the highest developer subscriber count for an incubator project. iBatis is at 54 subscribers and nutch at 140, both of which I think have been approved to graduate. http://people.apache.org/~coar/mlists.html The developers employed by IBM know that and practice that all Derby discussion takes place on the developer list, we have been helping out anyone on the list who asks questions about internals etc, several IBM folks have spent time writing up internal information and posting it to the list, we've presented at conferences. I think the activity on the list shows that an active multi-participant community has been built. I think it goes to Ken's question of how much more can the incubator project benefit Derby. Dan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
