Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-22 Thread Andrea Alberto
Thanks to Rahul and Simon for the explanation, also the document on Wiki has been very useful to better understand the situation. I think I'll keep reading the mailing list and maybe give some spot contribution to the commons on a more active project or to some other projects in Apache. An

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-22 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Andrea, Thanks for your offer of help. I'm sure everyone appreciates that. However working on a project that you aren't personally using, and which doesn't have an existing development team, is probably not a good way to begin. If you're keen to get involved with the Apache Java community I a

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/21/05, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah I know... Was just assuming dormant mode already for my offer, OK, I did miss that critical point earlier :-) On 12/21/05, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not about finding a release manager, but about

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
The big one for me is to know why we'd want to have such a project. Rome exists, it has a good license and it's getting used. There's no reason to not develop redundant components if the itch is there, but why work at creating the itch? Good point indeed. I just stepped to volunteer helping o

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Rahul Akolkar wrote: On 12/21/05, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I also said on the PMC list, I am not particularly interested in development on feedparser, though I am willing to apply patches (if they are complete with testcases). Thanks for stepping forward Martin,

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Phil Steitz wrote: We need to make a decision on which way to go here...either demote back to sandbox/dormant or have someone step up to drive this component toward a release. This is a clear case of demote to dormant IMHO. Stephen -

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/20/05, Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need to make a decision on which way to go here...either demote > back to sandbox/dormant or have someone step up to drive this > component toward a release. > > I am happy to help getting the site fixed (seems we just need to add > it to the

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/21/05, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I also said on the PMC list, I am not particularly interested in > development on feedparser, though I am willing to apply patches (if they are > complete with testcases). Thanks for stepping forward Martin, I have no background a

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/21/05, Andrea Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am willing to start contributing to some project at the > jakarta-commons and this could be a good possibility. > I have java experience but no experience as a developer on RSS (but I > think this is not a big problem). > Thanks a l

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Martin van den Bemt
As I also said on the PMC list, I am not particularly interested in development on feedparser, though I am willing to apply patches (if they are complete with testcases). Assuming dormant means you can still commit to it (else archive would have been a better name probably), we can move it the

Re: [feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-21 Thread Andrea Alberto
Hi, I am willing to start contributing to some project at the jakarta-commons and this could be a good possibility. I have java experience but no experience as a developer on RSS (but I think this is not a big problem). Andrea On 12/21/05, Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need to m

[feedparser] Going once, going twice...

2005-12-20 Thread Phil Steitz
We need to make a decision on which way to go here...either demote back to sandbox/dormant or have someone step up to drive this component toward a release. I am happy to help getting the site fixed (seems we just need to add it to the nav, as http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/feedparser/ is there