On Monday, October 7, 2013 10:55:41 AM UTC-7, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > > On Oct 6, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Sarvi Shanmugham <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > The activity level seems to have gone way down. > > Most of the Demo sections seem to unusable. > > I was trying to convince a friend that Pyjamas is a good tool to use for > web development, tried to show of the demos which fell flat. > > Ended up looking the fool.:-( > > > > I came back home and tried out the demo and realized there is a bug that > has been filed > > https://github.com/pyjs/pyjs/issues/800 > > and has been untouched for about a month. > > > > There hasn't been much response on the email alias either. > > > > The last commit has been over 4 months ago. > > > > > > Anyone one know whats going on? > > It seems like the original maintainers are quite busy, although they > occasionally pop up and answer questions. > > It seems like if every time someone asked a hand-wringing question about > whether the project was "dying", or linked to a long-standing bug, they > instead just went to submit a pull request to fix a bug, PyJS would be a > super active, vibrant project :-). It's open source, if it's struggling, > just pitch in a little bit and it will be struggling a bit less. > > (And it seems to me that there are _plenty_ of people out there who might > contribute a little if only there were more signs of life, so it's not like > someone has to maintain the whole project. Just put in a little effort and > I predict many more people will crawl out of the woodwork to help out...) > Well, most successfull open source projects, there is always a lead or group of leads that are passionate about the project that drive things and then a whole bunch of fanboys who both use it and make occasional contribution of bugs they might find. Can't think of one successfull open source project that did not have a passionate and active leads or group of leads maintaining and driving things.
And then I saw this http://technogems.blogspot.com/2013/08/can-pyjamas-rise-from-its-ashes.html blog post and I noticed that the git repo there was more active with commits. And it looks like Pyjamas, a really wonderfull piece of work, that has so much potential, seems stuck between a rock and hard place. So much so that much inferier alternatives to this approach are gaining more steam than pyjamas. It saddens me to see it. Thats all. Sarvi > > -glyph > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pyjs.org Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
