On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Henning Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ==== Inexperience with Open Source: ==== > Empire-db has been Open Source from its start in 2001, but it has only > been publicly available since January 2008.
This is odd to say the least, and from the empire-db.org [1] website I find this quote: "In summer 2007 ESTEAM Software decided that the solution was now mature enough to be released as an Open Source project under the name Empire-db." So it was actually open source since Jan 2008? It doesn't matter much, but I do find it odd :) > All committers have long > experience in using Open Source projects, but none has served as a > committer on other Apache projects. We do, however, not expect any > difficulty in adapting the Apace development process and follow the > meritocracy rules. This is something the Incubator exists for. > ==== Homogenous developers: ==== > All core developers have initially worked for the same employer, with > one now working for a different employer at a different location. It is > one of our primary goals to become a more heterogeneous community. This does make the barrier to entry a bit high for non-involved folks. There is little evidence of open development available for empire-db. Only the sf.net forum is public and consists of just one active thread in the last 6 months. Also the development of an open source project should happen out in the open. The CVS statistics of sourceforge.net [2] show little to no activity regarding this project: Date (UTC) Anon Read Transactions Devel Read Transactions Write Transactions Jun 2008 * 1 28 7 May 2008 0 0 0 Apr 2008 0 0 0 Mar 2008 4 0 0 Feb 2008 0 8 7 Jan 2008 0 0 0 Total 5 36 14 What is the current development style of the committers? Is there no activity in CVS because the project is "done"? Or because development occurs off-line? Martijn Dashorst [1] http://www.empire-db.org/empiredb/faq.htm#question1 [2] http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=214540&ugn=empire-db&type=cvs&mode=12months --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
