Who's fixing bugs though? The community is working, but it's not growing. Just look at the mail traffic trend - http://harmony.markmail.org/.
-Nathan On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Xiao-Feng Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This depends on people's expectation. If we consider the lines of > code, I saw DRLVM had a large number of check-ins in the past month. > Also the discussions on startup time, hashcode opt, global > propagation, etc., incurred interesting comments/insights, which > turned into some good improvements in DRLVM. > > One thing we should take into consideration is, JVM is entering a > stable period in its development. It is not like the period of > functionality development, since there is no major missing > functionality in DRLVM now. The new developments are more for > improvements. For example, when Wenlong saw the startup time had a > problem, he initiated the discussions, and got feedbacks, then worked > in it and came up with a patch. I reviewed the code, and think it's a > good patch accomplishing its goal. This is a pretty good example of > community-development. > > Of course, more discussions are welcome. Well I personally have no > real concern about the development. But I agree with you that, a > couple of committers are not active recently... > > Thanks, > xiaofeng > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Nathan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Should we mention the derth of DRLVM development. From a community >> perspective I am a little concerned about it. >> -Nathan >> >> On 12/10/08, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Our regular update to the Apache Board is now due. >>> >>> I have a draft in the Wiki here >>> http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/Board200812 >>> >>> Please take a look and amend as you see fit, especially PMC members as >>> it is a PMC report although we always welcome all comments from the >>> community. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tim >>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> > > > > -- > http://xiao-feng.blogspot.com >
