+1 for McCain... just to be different...

:: Justin Reagor
:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Sean Braithwaite wrote:

>
> +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.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Mark Bates
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.mackframework.comhttp:// 
>> api.mackframework.com/http://github.com/markbates/mack
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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