On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Alessandro Novarini wrote: > Hi all, > > I won't write here again what I have already written in previous mails and > reports about my frustrations. > > In this case the lack of a community is a big deal and it's sad to read about > the retirement. Sad but understandable. > > Even if I committed once a week, the project would keep being dead; I started > again last week working on it, but honestly I'm not too keen working on > one-man project. And it's not even funny. > > Sadly, as I cannot guarantee a regular involvement, I accept the decision of > retiring the project.
Hi Ale, Just to be clear -- I don't think there's been a decision to retire the project. We'd have more discussions and vote to do that. I did want to gauge where the community is at (and perhaps, hopefully, trigger some activity). Matthew wanted to give a little more time to see if the community could grow. I'm ok with doing that. We're also free to discuss/re-discuss ideas for attracting new contributors. Identifying places where the efforts of new contributors would be valuable/appreciated is a useful task to help encourage new contributions. A while back, Matthew suggested putting a usage guide together. If anyone is interested in making non-code contributions (but valuable to the community, nonetheless), the project web site needs to be updated to conform to apache standards. I'm just throwing out suggestions. Perhaps some of these things already occurred. And hope I'm not pouring salt in any wounds… --kevan
