On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost >> its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a >> mentor I'm putting some effort there, hoping to achieve a similar >> revival as we've seen in PDFBox. Niclas is another active mentor. So >> for now we'll keep trying. > > The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic, > disruptive change of the codebase (i.e. a ver 3.0, similar to what Roy > was talking about @ AC-EU-2008) is necessary to get a (not the) > community going. Existing codebase is too good, noone wants big > changes, people who understand reported bugs are AWOL, and no vision > for the future.
i've been observing this for a while and have some ideas. maybe we could all get together for a couple of hours at ApacheConEU. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
