Sorry, but the explanation below makes things sound even worse. Apache projects are not here to give students a place to do school work. What you have described is not a community. If the project cannot build a community of people who are interested in the project for more than a school term then it doesn't belong here.
Ralph On Jun 29, 2011, at 8:12 PM, SamuelKevin wrote: > Hi, Noel: > > 2011/6/30 Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> > >> Joe Schaefer wrote: >>> Chen Liu wrote: >>>> We propose to move future development of BlueSky to the Apache Software >>>> Foundation in order to build a broader user and developer community. >> >>> You are supposed to be doing your development work in the ASF subversion >>> repository, using ASF mailing lists, as peers. >> >> Chen, as Joe points out, these are what BlueSky should have been doing for >> the past three (3) years, and yet we still here a proposal for the future. >> >>> Looking at the (limited) commit history, there is a total imbalance >> between >>> the number of people associated with the development work (20+) and the >>> number of people with Apache accounts here (2). >> >> I guess i can explain that. Most of the developers of BlueSky project are > students. As you all know, students come when they join in school and go > after they graduate. So the active developers are around 10. Like we used to > have 5 committers, but now we only have 2 committers in active. > >> Again, as Joe points out, ALL of BlueSky development should been done via >> the ASF infrastructure, not periodically synchronized. We are a >> development >> community, not a remote archive. >> >>> What we really need you to discuss are *plans*, how you will implement >> them, >>> who will implement them, and how you will collaborate in the codebase as >> peers. >> >> Joe, again, has this on the money. The BlueSky project must immediately >> make significant strides to rectify these issues. Now, not later. >> >> We should see: >> >> 1) All current code in the ASF repository. >> 2) All development via ASF accounts (get the rest of the people signed >> up). >> 3) Ddevelopment discussion on the mailing list. >> 4) All licensing issues cleaned up. >> >> According to what you've listed, i would forward your suggestion to bluesky > dev list and wish we could make a quick response after > discussion. Appreciate your help. > regards, > Kevin > >> --- Noel >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU > Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech > http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
