> -----Original Message----- > From: korebantic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:19 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [Jelly] current and future status? > > > Wow this mailing list will teach you to use filters > fast! > > > > i would like to say that i feel that developer > > activity can be a poor > > guide as to whether to use a project or not. the > > developer activity is > > related to the maturity of the project as well as > > interest. mature > > projects tend to spend more time discussing changes > > and worrying about > > the consequences of chances rather than committing > > code. i'd be > > concerned about a project with a lot of activity > > since this may > > indicate that a lot of develop is needed before the > > project can be used > > in production. > > > > personally speaking, i think that developer > > responsiveness is much more > > important than activity: if you have a question or > > need some additional > > feature, could you get the help you need? this can > > be gauged from the > > mailing list. > > > I agree completely, that's why I sent out the original > question to this list instead of judging it's status > purely on the commits. I've already found out some > interesting things -- like the original maintainer is > MIA =/
Not exactly MIA - he's off working on Groovy (JSR 241) now. http://groovy.codehaus.org/ -- Martin Cooper > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway > http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]