+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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
