+1
On Dec 5, 10:52 am, Mark Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +1 Here. Dan seems like a great guy, and has done a wonderful job with
> DM so far. I've had great conversations with Sam and the other guys at
> Weick, and they've done a great job getting DM off the ground, but the
> project really needs someone with the time and energy to really spear
> head it and bring it to the next level, and I think Dan is definitely
> the guy to do that.
>
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> Mark Bates
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> On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
>
> > Dear All:
>
> > I feel that, over the last several months, development of DataMapper
> > has stagnated. I was excited to see a new, awesome, orm come onto the
> > Ruby scene, and have been an active developer on it for over a year
> > now. However, I think that we've been wandering around for the last
> > few months, with no direction, no goals, and a deteriorating codebase.
> > Dan Kubb (dkubb) and I (Rando) kicked off a fork, in attempt to
> > rewrite all the specs, and we have received awesome contributions from
> > several of you. Work is progressing well, but slowly.
>
> > Unfortunately, the founder of DataMapper, Sam Smoot, has been
> > otherwise occupied with "Real Life", and unable to provide much
> > leadership or direction. I do not fault him, or anyone, for the
> > current state of things. We all have priorities, and sometimes the
> > ones that pay take precedence over the ones that are mere hobbies. For
> > DataMapper to thrive, I feel we need someone to take over as official
> > maintainer who has the time necessary to devote towards this project.
>
> > As such, I submit for consideration of this group that Dan Kubb take
> > over official "head maintainer" duties. Dan is active in the list and
> > IRC channels, and has performed the majority of the work in the spec
> > rewrite in his dm-core fork. He also released the last gem release of
> > DataMapper. He's also shown an interest in doing so, and I think he's
> > an ideal candidate for what we need to continue to move DataMapper
> > forward to 1.0.
>
> > Paul Sadauskas
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