On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Eric Yang wrote: > Apache is a non-profit organization. If we restrict our thinking model to > metrics of how many developers, and how many patches are committed in > pre-defeined time limit. There is no software that is gong to succeed in > this evaluation other than commercial software. Paid developers are > contributing to the software that meeting cooperate interests at rapid > pace, and smaller companies will work together until cooperate interests > tear apart the software, or the funding eventually dry up and the software > cease to exist, and the community will eventually fall apart. Good > software usually comes down to a few individuals who work hard to enable > the community to flourish. Many of the good software takes decades to > develop from hobby projects. I will accept the voting result from IPMC, > and I wish IPMC would use better human sense to enable future project to > flourish.
The ASF is not about code. It's about community. You cannot have a community of one. There are many high quality software projects that are being developed by lone coders. You'll find them on GitHub, SourceForge, etc. > Chris Douglas resigned from mentor position, therefore, Chukwa will need a > new mentor, and one of Chukwa contributor Sourygna Luangsay volunteer to be > the motivator for Chukwa development if Chukwa is voted to stay for another > 6 months. Sourygna needs to step up and volunteer on his own. But, to my mind, we have more than enough cheerleaders. We need coders. JMHO. Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
