Sent from wrong account... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Depot Development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:26 AM Subject: Depot
> Folks > > Sorry I've been offline a while, I've had other priorities to take care of. > > I will be sad to let Depot go, but I suspect it is time. I am starting to > believe that without a lot more community drive (or just outright individual > stubbornness to continue) that something like a version/repository idea is > too much to pull off. Further, I suspect that Javasoft ought be handling it, > not other groups. Also, I do suspect we tried to do too much (and yes, I > probably was over enthusiastic and helped over engineer some parts) so > couldn't keep up with it. That, and (for me) the transition into incubation > caused too much environment awkwardness, and I lost momentum. > > Whatever the case, long and the short is that we didn't seem to build on a > simple use case, we didn't use it first and code it second. Basically it > stagnated underneath us. I don't think I'll ever quite understand why, but > despite technical merits (IMHO) something just didn't spark others. Maybe > marketing, maybe star alignment, definitely community. > > That all said, I really really struggle with this. So much effort, so much > good stuff, so close. Gak! I hate letting go. > > regards, > > Adam >