In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeffrey D. Brekke writes: >I would like to see this interest from users translated into momentum, >I just don't know how to do the translation. I think that we left the >state of net at not having enough developers and not enough unit >tests. I do get queries from users sent directly to me and always >attempt to deflect them to the commons list ( I'm sure Daniel gets >much more than I ). There seems a strong user base, but we also need >developers.
Ditto what Jeff said. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henr i Yandell writes: >For Net, +1. Daniel seems to still be maintaining it informally, but not >developing on it anymore. Assuming he's okay with a release, I think a 1.0 >[or a version number that matches the latest NetComponent release number + >1] would be a good thing. Actually, Jeff Brekke is the lead developer and was completely responsible for repackaging the source and importing it into commons-sandbox after the user community voted to move it into the sandbox. I'm sort of the assistant developer now, always ready to pounce on bug reports and fix them, but not prepared to undertake major development initiatives. Even though we haven't converted enough users into developers, I think the project may need a 1.0 (or whatever number is appropriate) release build to make that happen. My (perhaps flawed) reasoning for saying this is that the NetComponents archives I make available to prevent Web rot (eventually will just redirect to Jakarta Commons) are still getting thousands of downloads a month from my Web site, whereas the text processing/regular expression archive downloads have declined significantly ever since jakarta-oro releases became available. In any case, I'm +1 on a promotion with the condition that unit tests will be the first order of business before any major development initiative is undertaken. i.e., we'll fix bugs but won't apply new functionality patches until we've established a unit test framework. daniel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
