Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz<bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > In such a case, the key point is, do the people who write the code > listen to the community?
That's certainly good, but IMHO not really the key point as it doesn't address the case when those people lose interest. A community that actually writes the code is much stronger than one that just helps key committers do that job. The River and PDFBox podlings that I'm currently mentoring are good examples of projects where community input was valued and taken into account by the key committers, but when they no longer had time/interest the projects essentially stopped as there was nobody to continue the work. PDFBox seems to have overcome that problem now and River is showing some positive signs, but both cases have required (and still require) quite a bit of mentoring to get them going again. Besides all the other good things diversity brings it's also an insurance policy for the project, and that's what I think the Incubator should be looking for as a graduation criteria. BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
