On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rainer Döbele <doeb...@esteam.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks Jukka for your view on this issue and thank you Benson for bringing > this topic up. > > I am one of the Empire-db committers and certainly we would appreciate it > very much if there is a way for us to graduate. > It is true that we are a small community of around 5 regularly active > committers but at least we're divers (i.e. non related and regionally > distributed) and as far as we can tell from our mailing lists, it looks as > there are a number of users who appriciate our work as they ask questions and > give us positive feedback. > > Personally I would find it very sad if we would not be able to continue > staying with the ASF as we kind of feel at home here and everything we do is > done the Apache way. The one thing we have failed, is to advertise and market > our project better. As we all have our jobs to do and no (time) sponsor for > this we always rather spent our time improving the code rather than working > on marekting - and to be honest, being software developers marketing is not > really our core competence. I would not be surprised if other projects in the > incubator would have similar problems. > > Certainly there is no way for us to compete with projects like Subversion or > Open Office and there is no way for us to ever get there. > But I hope that it is not only size that matters.
IMHO 5 diverse, active and regular committers is enough to sustain a TLP I would be reluctant to graduate small projects before they've demonstrated sustainability but I think that empire-db has done this. Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
