On 9/18/07, Toback, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This brings some questions to mind - namely what is causing this project > to not gather continued attention. > > What's preventing adoption or continued improvement? (other than me > lack of personal time to work on this, this summer) > > Is the database really the halting factor? Or is there something else - > Lack of apache 2.2 support? I honestly don't know.
Perhaps not having a binary version of the release? Niall > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Participant Status? > > -- project status -- > > The last word of discussion some 3 months ago was about infra, the > creation of the lokahi wiki site. It has since been unused. Some > banter on the tail end of ApacheCon EU/07 included ideas about docs > and deployment help, and some ideas about DB backends. > > The last commit activity in the same timeframe were the beginnings > of a jackrabbit connector, no other activity for commits@ since then. > > There has been no activity on private. > > -- commentary -- > > Of course it was summer, nobody at the ASF expects measurable milestones > etc in the development of open source. Things move at the speed of the > project participants. Heathy/dead project definitions hide the fact > that the code is there for people to use, and there may be either little > to change in the current code (it just works), or things are just clear. > > However, there is identified a need to provide a non-proprietary > database > backend before the project graduates. There's also an identified need > to > add documentation of how to at least deploy and get started > using/testing > lokahi. > > Once those are done there really isn't a big reason to be in the > incubator, > except that the community is very small, which gives the IPMC and the > board > concern that it doesn't have enough interest to be maintained or > overseen. > > The incubator PMC really needs some folks to speak up on this thread of > their intent to remain (return to being) active at this project. It's > amazing how the positive reception ("That's exactly what we we've been > looking for!" or "That's what we were attempting to implement" or simply > "Wow, you mean there actually is one out there???") There's a need, > there > is an audience. There's even (good) code. Are there participants? > > Bill > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains > information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, > New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known > outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD > and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is > available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be > confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this > message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this > message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then > delete it from your system. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >
