On 30/04/2008, at 10:08 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
We really need to push this along if you're going to be busy with
your day job and Evan with his insane bike ride for the next month :)
Why do we "really need to push this along" ? Graduation happens as a
natural consequence of competent developers with a passion for
working on NMaven getting involved and that just takes time. I think
pushing it along unnaturally is categorically the wrong thing to do.
I only meant pushing along the things that allow others to contribute
with less guidance. Obviously pushing graduation unnaturally is a bad
idea.
My thought is that there is no real way "in" for someone just
wanting to contribute
Though that would help that's certainly not true in the case of Evan
and Zak who made their way through the code and started
contributing. Certainly we can work on the roadmap, I agree it
should be sorted a little better.
Right, it was just my opinion... I visited the site and thought "if I
wanted to contribute, here could I get started?", and didn't find
anything to guide me. Not everyone is like that, but I think every bit
helps.
Graduation is really dependant on being able to gain users, and
having a path to convert them to developers, IMO.
And this just takes time. The CXF project is a great example of
building a project up the right way and it took about two years for
it to get out of the incubator. It doesn't mean that people can't
use it. I know that from Sonatype's perspective we have clients
using NMaven and we're providing support for them with the code in
the incubator and they are fine with that. Obviously they would like
it out of the incubator but the community needs to grow naturally
and there needs to be several people who have intrinsic knowledge
about NMaven before it can leave the incubator.
Well said, I couldn't agree more :)
Cheers,
Brett
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