Hi all, when looking through the components and the sandbox I can see that development activity is very different. We have very few components that are been worked on constantly, most notably [math].
Some components seem to be worked on, only by a few people. [configuration] comes to mind, where Oliver Heger is pushing a redsign of the API forward. Thomas Neidhart is working on [logging] and in the same time prepares [collections] for a 4.0 release. Oliver and Thomas are representatives for other people that are not mentioned here, who put a lot of effort into individual components. Furthermore we have some really promising APIs that have never been released like [csv], [functor], [graph], [privilizer]. It's sad, that we can not get those into a releasable state. Now I was asking myself how we can improve things. For me the collaboration with other developers always is the most fun (and the most instructive). This is why I was trying to get involved in more components recently. I believe if several people work together on one component at a time, overall development speed will increase. With this thread I want to bring up a discussion regarding medium-term development goals for commons. It may be a good thing if could agree on something like: "Until end of this year we want to push out collections 4.0" or just "Let us focus attention on [csv] to finally push out the first release soon". I know that most of us work for commons in their free time and almost certainly want to develop on the components they are really interested in. This is why my intention is not to create rules, like "nobody is allowed to do commits for components other than [graph] until we have a release", but to define a shared goal to focus resources and enhance development speed and fun (at least for me ;-) WDYT? Benedikt -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
