Hi Werner, On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > ...While I haven't claimed my actual committer user, I > remained active sometimes by helping others in the mailing list to add > their ideas...
Absolutely, thanks for that - I think that makes you and me the only initial committers (http://incubator.apache.org/devicemap/team.html) who have been recently active. I'm not blaming people, life happens...but it's good if we can find a way to go forward by inviting others. > ....Some of them if they are happy to contribute really should > consider joining, also with code commit rights.... Yes - we're currently discussing this on the private list (as is usual for discussions about people), hoping to have some announcements very soon. > >... OpenDDR released a 1.16 release also of the resources definition, so except > for the C# "balloon" that has not seen much activity over the last months, > both device definitions and where necessary the Java API are maintained in > almost monthly intervals... My understanding was that this maintenance would happen here, after the DMAP-11 donation, but as you say: > ...Unless we succeed to define a working way of > updating these kinds of things here, too, ideally in a semi- or fully > automated way, these changes may not always be applicable to DeviceMap, not > to mention possible IP or licensing requirements.... Ok, so we need to work towards that. > ...If other OpenDDR committers here are too busy, I'd be happy to help trying > to sync device definitions, but there may be still one or two basic things > we should get in place first. Those offering to help may speed things up a > bit... sounds good! -Bertrand
