Welcome Michael ! Passion is the key factor, and since you have been using MINA for quite some time.. it would be real good to have you on the team :)
cheers ashish On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/10/10 3:26 PM, Michaël Figuière wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> > > Hi Michaël ! >> >> So far I've been using Mina for 2 years and I've been following the >> mina-dev >> list for some months. This seems to be a good point in time for me to >> start >> getting involved in Mina ! >> >> Some words about me. I've been working on various Java / JEE projects for >> some large companies in France for 4 years and I'm quite interested in any >> network and distributed stuff, whether they are in Java, C or anything >> else. >> While loving such low level things, i also enjoy to design simple to use >> high level API that make complicated things simpler : that seems to make >> Mina a nice fit for me :-) >> > > Great ! >> >> Thanks you all for the nice work you give and have given to the community. >> See you later on this mailing list ! >> > > Just FYI guys, Michaël is someone I met 2 years ago, and we have had many > heated discussion about MINA while drinking beers (oops, Michaël does not > drink at all :/ ). I have engaged him many times to be part of the effort, > and I'm pleased to see him posting for the first time ! > > Michaël, we are currently trying to close MINA 2.0, and as you can see on > the ML, we are closing the existing JIRAs. I consider that MINA 2.0 is not > a version we want to change a lot, this is the reason we have started some > discussion about MINA 3.0. Apache projects are based on merit, and this > merit is established by contributions. So feel free to participate, we hope > that your contributions will be good enough for the existing community to > grant you some commit karma ! > > For those who thnk they can bring some value to the project, don't be scared > to participate : people tend to think that Apache committers are some kind > of half gods. That's *not* the case. > > We are just plain gods ;) > > Seriously, we are just average coders who are passionate about code, and > dedicated to offer the best we can to our users. What makes the difference > is the way we work : > - it's a community, so expect your contributions to be challenged, > - it's a community, so be sure that you'll get some help > - it's a community, so what you can't solve, someone else will > > All in all, it's just about being a community, with a few rules ! > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.nextury.com > > > -- thanks ashish Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal
