Excellent Rob! FYI Celix [1] entered the inucbator with just one single initial committer and thus I'd say there's was no point at any time requiring hundreds of developers backing the proposal.
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/celix.html Cheers Daniel On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, <robert_w...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/02/2011 05:45:57 PM: > > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:55, <robert_w...@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> > dsh <daniel.hais...@googlemail.com> wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: >> > >> >> >> >> IMHO "the project" is "on track" the community just needs to discuss >> >> some more things and sort them out. It is just that I don't even > think >> >> it's required to provide proof-points based on "questionable" >> >> analytics at this point in time. There is a saying in this regards "I >> >> only believe in statistics that I doctored myself" and that's >> >> certainly one reason why I feel suspicious about these kind of >> >> analysis :) >> >> >> > >> > Questionable? If only 54 people have checked in code in the last 6 >> > months, then no amount of magic with source code indentation is going > to >> > get you to 400 developers. If you disagree, I'd like to see the magic > you >> > can do with the tab key! >> >> Rob: does this need to continue? >> > > If we're all now satisfied of the plausibility of growing a sufficiently > large developer base this code base, and no one is still maintaining that > we need hundreds of developers, then I think we're done. > > -Rob > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
