very good post Michael, I am all +1 Just one thing I would like to mention. It is "good practice" or "tradition" to clean up the committers list shortly before incubation exit. Of course nothing speaks against having another section in the project status page with emeritus committers filled with names we already have idenentfied as non active
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michael MacFadden <michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should follow up on my comments. I was not necessarily expressing my own > opinions. Nor was I speak on behalf of the whole community. I was just > paraphrasing some of the comments I have seen. > > My personal thoughts are: > > I think the SVN vs GIT vs Hg, issue while it has technical merit shouldn't be > a road block as all of them will function just fine at the macro level. As > far as the code review tool, I don't think that is a deal breaker either. > For me the stumbling block has been the CMS. If there are other options for > hosting the site, then I believe we should explore them and get going on > that. I also acknowledge that being part of the ASF is about more than just > the tools. If it wasn't we could have just stayed on the google code > infrastructure. > > So right now I would say the priorities should be: > > 1. Code Migration > 2. Review Migration > 3. Site Hosting Options Evaluation > 4. Site Migration > > > Lastly, right at the moment Yuri is really the only active code contributor. > I and a few other people have made some contributions over the last few > months, but it's primarily been Yuri. The active committer list has a lot of > people who aren't participating at all. I think we should start a separate > thread where people who intent to actually commit code (or participate in > some other way can sound off). Then we should clean up the committer list. > I think that will give clarity to where the project is and who the > participants are. > > ~Michael > > On Aug 19, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Andrew Ragone <ajr9...@rit.edu> wrote: >>> So the important questions are: >>> >>> 1. Who is the most knowledgeable with the current state of the project. >>> 2. Who are the primary leaders of the group. >>> >>> I wanna get the ball rolling on things again. We shouldn't just sit on >>> the sidelines waiting for google or whoever to finish things. >>> >> >> Same here. If anybody can point me to anything specific I can do to >> help, I'm game >> to jump in and help make this happen. I very much want to see Apache Wave >> succeed, as this is some really cool stuff. >> >> >> Phil > > -- http://www.grobmeier.de
