--- Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Benson wrote: > > --- Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > >> I have already made inquiries on the > >> user/[EMAIL PROTECTED] lists, and I have > >> also tried contacting the project developers > >> directly. Unfortunately I > >> have had little response, which I why I feel that > >> perhaps there is some > >> interest within the ANT community. Hence my > posting > >> here. > > I haven't noticed your inquiries, but I follow > those > > lists. I have recently become a Jakarta > committer, > > and it is my intention to try to become more > involved > > with commons development, especially with regard > to > > components forked from Ant (e.g. exec). So I > would > > encourage you to post JIRA issues and nag > commons-dev > > for attention. Launcher is counted among commons > > proper, but if there is little attention to it > it's > > probably considered to be in maintenance mode. > > > > HTH, > > Matt > > > Thanks for responding. Here's a link to a short > thread of discussion I > started on the commons-dev list. > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-commons-dev/200702.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sometimes things get missed. After waiting a reasonable time with no response, sometimes you have to ping. It probably goes something like: 1. You submit a mail to the list. 2. Committers look and think "I'm not actively involved with [launcher], so I'll wait and see if anyone else picks this up." 3. Committers probably all forget about it. 4. You ping the list. 5. One or more committers puts on his "larger community" hat and has a look at an unfamiliar component for the sake of the commons community. Note that it's a good idea on the commons lists to preface your subject with the bracket-delimited component name, e.g. [launcher]. It certainly can't hurt, and is considered the "right" way to post there. I'll try to have a look at the JIRA issues for launcher later this week (extremely busy ATM). > > I am still open to the shepherding process, and the > nagging etc it > entails :). I have decided to follow the issue up > here primarily > because I wonder why these features could not also > be part of ANT? I > also think that commons-launcher has a large > potential community of > users within the larger ANT community. > > What does maintenance-mode mean? I'm guessing it > means that the bugs > against it aren't fixed, but that the source is > still integrated with > Apache's continuous integration/build-system and > maintained (in so far > as ensuring it always builds). Is this correct? > Actually, "maintenance mode" should mean that bugs are fixed, but new development is not taking place. If bugs are not being addressed that means that no existing committer has the itch to work on the components, and that no contributor/user is howling loudly enough to get attention. :) -Matt > Thanks again, > > R. [SNIP] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
