Mark Brouwer wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Dan Creswell wrote: >> Mark Brouwer wrote: >>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>>> I think that it's something that doesn't need to be decided up front - >>>> it's something that can evolve as the community does. >>> While I understand it is quite easy to move things around in the >>> repository, it is always troubles for those working on the project. So a >>> little bit of thinking up front won't do any harm. >>> >> >> Agreed but do you not feel like we're still guessing for the most part? >> >> Especially as we haven't got much in the way of feedback from the >> community to give us a hint as to how they might want things done? > > Maybe I'm having a non-ASF compliant opinion here, for which no doubt I > will be keelhauled if so. But we have an initial committer list, that > means we have enough people willing to work here so we can move forward > in a way that *we* want, biased of course by each person own supporters > ;-). >
:) > Anybody else can raise his voice and become involved and I think the > people here have shown in length to listen and discuss any issue brought > up, so I'm not afraid that we block participation. But I am of the > opinion we should stop trying and waiting to listen to the silent mass > (for each of us represents an unknown percentage of the silent Jini > community). > As it happens, so am I but I have to test whether other people feel the same ;) > People know the River project has started, based on the number of > subscribers I think a lot have confidence in this initial committer list > to make the right decisions till it gets rolling. If that turns out to > be a bad assumption they are punished for their lack of interest ;-) > and will likely raise their voice somewhere in the future. > Punished indeed! > But let me add my new disclaimer for this year: > > "None of my opinions are as strong in reality as my words might > indicate, it is just a lack of fine social capabilities.".
