On 17-Aug-06, at 3:50 PM, Steffen Schwigon wrote:
Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
We're in the process of migrating AxKit into the Perl PMC
Does that mean AxKit goes away from Apache.org?
No. The Perl PMC is just another branch of apache.org. It currently
hosts the mod_perl project and the Apache::Test project.
In the meantime I think this would be a Good Thing, assuming that
would mean much less bureaucracy. (I can't imagine there is still such
a thing like a voting for a release in the current open source world.)
All Apache projects have to do it. It provides oversight for when
there might be an issue with a release.
I would like to see it *much* more open, with a public repository with
*easy* committer bits that some (> 1) core people can give out to
everyone with the slightest interest.
I fear, once Matt has less time again, like it happened in the last
years, AxKit will be dead again before you can say Blueberry pie.
With more open policies, people with tuits like Tom Schindl could had
driven it easier forward in the meantime, instead of forking the
already tenderly progressing project. (Driven forward regardless of
the direction -- every direction were better than stagnancy.)
Honestly if people had come forward with patches or offers of help
then they would have been given committer bits. The truth is that Tom
came to the party very late anyway, after all of us were much busier
on other things, and rather than patches to the current system he
just had a whole new one, which as you can imagine is a lot harder to
take in and examine than just patches.
If there's some way we can be more open and give out committer bits
more freely then I'm open to ideas, but I still think a committer bit
requires some sort of effort to patch/commit before we give it out.
And as everyone knows my favourite saying is "Patches welcome" ;-)
Matt.
