Rajith I appreciate your passion on these projects and I think you will make an excellent PMC member.
Paul On Nov 23, 2007 6:59 PM, Rajith Attapattu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for your feedback and I appreciate your passion about Synapse. I > added my name to PMC on Paul's invitation. > Thank you Sanjiva and Paul for appreciating what ever I have done for ASF. > > First of all I don't work for money on Synapse, Tuscany or Axis2. All work > was done during my free time. > The past 6-8 months or so I was heavily involved in Qpid which is an > incubator project. > I am the release manager for this project and this project needs quite a > bit of work to get it into a stable stage. > Red Hat pays me to work on this. I need money to feed my family, so I see > nothing wrong in that. > But make no mistake, I strongly believe in Qpid and it's vision. > > I only comment on a mailing list if I have something to say, otherwise I > keep quiet. I feel obliged to +1 what I felt was a good decision for the > project. > If I don't like something I will say so. My strong opposition to the IBM > folks on Context hierarchy persistence is one such example. > > I was a bit disappointed about the comment on axis2 clustering :(. > Clustering was my pet project. I spent hours of my free time trying to get > a prototype working, lurking on WADI mailing lists and talking with Filip > Hanik (tribes) and several others. I had to throw away two prototypes before > coming to a compromise with the axis2 folks :) > I spent several late nights trying to talk with folks on email/irc/IM > trying to work out the details. > The work wasn't visible until I got chamikara to commit them to the trunk > after the necessary testing and modification.(kudos to him and Afkam) > That is a good 6 months of work and almost a year of discussion. > > Sure my name my not be on the commit notice for the clustering code, but I > am extremely proud that my ideas, initiation and prototype got into axis2. > If I wanted my name then I could have committed it myself !!!!. > > >THere was one person sent a couple of mails to mail list and did > one-liner commit or so. :) I may be wrong. > I checked the archives at this time and the only commit I made was the > clustering documentation for the 1.3 release. > I did so bcos I wanted to get clustering included in this release, not to > show that I am active. I was agitating to get clustering included from 1.0, > but was unable due to not being able get my prototype working. > > I cannot work on 4 projects at one time. I need to spend time with my > family too (plus I am trying to get my Msc going). > If I try to do to many things at once I will only spread my self thin. > I have a fairly big todo list to do. > I know Ant wants me to finish the Tuscany JMS binding (hopefully haven't > given up on it). I honestly tried to finish this off, but my discussions > with Jeremy and Raymond didn't go anywhere in understanding the existing > data binding framework. This time Ant/Sebastian has promised me help and > will try to finish during the Christmas break if any one else hasn't done it > by then. > There is an AMQP transport that I am unable to commit to (axis2 or > synapse) as Qpid is still finalizing issues. > There is more clustering related things that I am unable to touch bcos of > existing work. > > PMC member or not, visible or not, I will continue hacking on my pet > projects. Axis2 is my first open source project and very I am proud of what > ever I have done to improve it. Similarly I am passionate about every > project that I work on, Synapse included. It is bcos I am genuinely > interested in the project and believe in it's vision. > > Regards, > > Rajith. > > > On Nov 23, 2007 10:24 AM, Steve Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -1 for Rajith attapattu as a synapse pmc. > > > > I have a concern over his intentions. I'm inactive listener in this > > community for a long time. I have seen this name in axis mail lists > > long time back. He did some axis stuff back then. i was knee deep in > > a clustering issue those days. May be this is another person. I'm not > > sure, but I think that was when he did that for some axis company back > > then, may have been his paid work. After that he was no more. > > > > If I remember correct, one time axis people announced they are going > > to trim inactive commiters. THere was one person sent a couple of > > mails to mail list and did one-liner commit or so. :) I may be wrong. > > But I remember this name because it was so funny suddenly coming up > > this after a sudden. > > > > I feel like some poeple only intention is to have name everywhere. > > Some people want to collect commiterships for CVs. :) Think Synapse > > won't gain anything from this. I did some research on mail lists and > > svn, there's nothinghe done on synapse. Only a few +1s and Ays given > > occasioaly without any effective outcome. > > > > Synapse is cool and have a great future. The community would be lot > > cooler without these issues hanging. Synapse members reconsider. Real > > contributors and would be contribtors should deserve this. > > > > Cheers > > > > STeven > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Rajith Attapattu > Red Hat > Blog http://mutlix.blogspot.com/ -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com
