Hi-- I went away from email for half a day and got a ton of new messages!
As a mentor to Click, I can attest that there's a small but active community involved. It's consistently operated in a transparent and open manner. There's been no signs of "dictatator for life" behavior. The founder of the project (Malcolm) is a frequent but not heavy-handed presence on the lists. Bob Schellink has overseen many of the details of going through the incubation process. (and Naoki Takezoe has consistently contributed as well). Contributions and discussion from a variety of contributors have been welcomed and accepted. I note too that Malcolm has been part of the Velocity community for some years with frequent feedback, bug reports, and occasional patches. One issue that has come up is that none of the Mentors (myself included) are users of Click (and hence not contributors). It would be nice if the PMC and committership were larger but there are successful projects with small PMCs - Velocity has had 3-5 active PMC members for some years now while successfully supporting a much large user base. I agree with Andrus that there's an opportunity to reach out to people more specifically, but such efforts do not magically turn contributors into committers. We had some discussion about graduation (and the committer size specifically) on the Click list between the mentors and the community. Our advice was essentially "go for it". Click's an innovative project with a small but open community. The core members clearly get the Apache Way. And the size of the PMC, while a concern, has potential to grow over time. I vote +1. WILL On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> > wrote: >> ...the project is fine, but should >> take a break with graduation to reevaluate its ranks and recruit willing and >> deserving individuals, and come back here maybe in 2-3 months if this >> endeavor is successful.... > > sounds like a plan, +1 to that. > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
