On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow researchers, > > It has become pretty quiet here at Labs over the last months. > > How should we make Labs more popular? > And who would volunteer to go ahead and actually take on a task? >
I agree with those other comments - places like google code and github are easier than labs with less restrictions and rules. So what to do with labs? Either accept that its day has past and close it down or make it more attractive, for example: - support git. I'm not up to speed on the current state of play with the ASF infrastructure git support but it sounded like it was starting to happen so labs could try to be one of the initial users - provide access to non-existing ASF people. Perhaps something like as long as there is an ASF committer initially creating the lab then they can get non-asf people access to participate. - allow releases. Just need to make sure its all clearly identified as not an official ASF release. - perhaps provide a really low overhead type of lab where you don't need a vote to accept it, create doap files, or update websites etc, more like just an svn sandbox to hold some code. - encourage the ASF GSoC students to do their projects here. There's some discussion right now on code-awards@ about where students do there work for the ASF projects and it sounds like currently most use github ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
