On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernd Fondermann ha scritto: > > > > > > > JAMES has no problem attracting developers: every month, someone shows > > > up with a particular aim or interest. JAMES has a major issue > > > converting developers into committers. IMHO the problem is that JAMES > > > is too big and it takes too long to understand. you've got to be > > > really dedicated even to start work on it. > > > > > > > I think - or at least thought at first - that moving IMAP out of trunk is > very unfortunate. > > But let's also be pragmatic! If making trunk leaner helps us releasing, > let's do it. Let's at least _try_ it. If it doesn't work out, we revert it. > If later we want to have IMAP in as an experimental, disabled-by-default > module, ok. But that's for later. > > > > I thought that having modules allowed us to keep working on a single source > tree.
i would do but unfortunately, only Bernd and I seem interested in development > I don't understand who is convinced that moving IMAP out of trunk is what > is needed to release. i am convinced that we need to reduce the quantity of code that needs to be reviewed before any releases can be made. IMAP-mailbox is the majority of the codebase. > IMHO there is no shame in releasing code marked as unstable together with > stable code. We introduced modules also for this, didn't we? yes but IMHO that's not an opinion shared by the majority of those with binding VOTEs. i suspect that if developer had the energy to devote to rationally review the codebases in details then i suspect that trunk is ok and that with some work a good 3.0 could be created from it. however, the energy is just too great for this to be realistic. i think it's clear now that i've failed to attract a critcial mass of developers to trunk. time to try a new approach, i think. JAMES as a community needs to start releasing code again. it's clear to me that there is no prospect of big releases but i think that a program of small releases is definitely doable. i don't think that it would be unrealistic to see mailet-api, mailet-base and sieve released next month followed by standard-mailets, mime4j and crypto-mailets the next then we could try a 2.3.x release containing the new libraries. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
