This definitely sounds like a worry. Our site has informally released the snapshot versions as (effectively) an alpha release. Is Spring dependent on these versions too?
Documentation looks good. Do you have a roadmap for finishing that? What future does Attributes have with the 1.5 Annotations? Do they replace it, or is it still viable then? [I suspect that is FAQ-worthy]. Do you need any help anywhere? On the subject of community, I think you've got the right answer. For a smaller number of active developers, documentation needs to take up any slack. I don't think the active developer size should stop us from recognising the reality that a release is needed. Hen On Sat, 15 May 2004, Leo Sutic wrote: > > > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I'm interested in finding out which parts of sandbox are not > > active and which would be worth putting time into getting a > > release done. > > > > Currently on the Commons site we list these as the active > > components, which are actually active and where are they release wise? > > > > attributes > > Attributes is active. Release-wise its in a bit of a bind - I > know that it is used by people - for example in the Spring Framework > (www.springframework.org). If each downloader of Spring can be > considered a user, then attributes has over 10,000 users. Of course > this statistic is 50-75% made up, but I'd be surprised if it > has less than ten users. > > However, this has not resulted in a community of *developers*, > making attributes one of those projects that don't quite > live up to the Apache standards. There's me, but that's > all. > > In defense of this state, it appears that attributes does > pretty much everything people want it to do, and so there is > little reason for anyone to dive in. > > Relase-wise I'm now focusing on writing documentation, > not putting new features in. > > A release would be great, especially for the spring people, > but I don't know if it is possible due to the lack of developers. > > /LS > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
