On Oct 10, 2013, at 18:13, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 10/10/2013 23:05, James Carman wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> I would suggest that a lack of releases is a much greater barrier. Folks >>> who contribute patches do so because they want to see them in a release. >>> If there are no releases (and looking back for the past 6 months there >>> have been very few releases considering the number of components in >>> commons) then, frankly, a move to git is largely irrelevant. What it >>> will do little is distract what little effort there is going into >>> releases making the overall problem worse not better. >>> >> >> It's a catch-22. You don't have releases because you don't have >> contributors. > > I disagree. We don't have releases because of an overly complex release > process.
+1. It's a pain for sure. But there no simple solution aside from reducing what we deliver and where :( Gary > Figuring out how to do a Pool 2 release is on my TODO list. > Having seen the pain others new to the Commons release process have gone > though, I'm not looking forward to it at all. > > Mark > >> And, you don't have contributors because you don't have >> releases. I agree we need to get busy cranking out some code to let >> folks know we're not dead (yet). The only way I see us getting more >> code going is to get new people and I honestly believe that using a >> tool like Git will help us do that. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
