In fact: otherwise I would have titled it lack of commits. :-D Thiago partially has answered saying that only Formos is sponsoring T in some way. That's the point: why this lack of sponsorships ? Great (ie with lot of committers) OS projects are not usually based on free time provided by programmers, but instead on companies that sponsor them.
Peter Stavrinides ha scritto: > Hi, > > I think that Ivano's post had a completely different tone and intention to > the responses he is getting, its better to get this post back on track... the > question at hand is for more people to be contributing to Tapestry (rather > than more from those who already contribute to Tapestry, 'who's contribution > was never ever in question'). The great strength of open source is that > people gift of their own time, but that strength is best realized in numbers > because people also have to earn some money to live. > > regards, > Peter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo" <thiag...@gmail.com> > To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> > Sent: Monday, 22 June, 2009 15:33:34 GMT +02:00 Athens, Beirut, Bucharest, > Istanbul > Subject: Re: lack of committers > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Ivano Luberti<lube...@archicoop.it> wrote: > >> Howard, it seems to me that Tapestry has really few committers and is >> mainly driven by one man. >> It is a shame for a so beautiful piece of software. >> What is the reason ? >> Simply the typical lack of funding ? Or is a more or less choice made >> by you for whatever reason. >> > > I'm a commiter since February and wrote the URL rewriting support that > Robert Zeigler improved (thanks Robert!). Unfortunately, that's the > single contribution I've done so far (besides contributing some > Brazilian Portuguese translations). > This issue is more about open source development at large than > Tapestry-specific: a few people are paid to work on projects (I wish I > was one of them), but most work on their free time. Some projects have > companies behind them (Hibernate, Spring, JBoss, etc), some of them > quite big (IBM, Sun, etc). > We all here should thank Formos for employing Howard, so he can spend > a lot of his *work* time writing and improving Tapestry. There are > many things I want to do, but I'm too busy now to do them. I can't > speak for other committers, but I guess this happens to them too. My > bigger plans are here: > http://www.nabble.com/-VOTE--Thiago-H.-de-Paula-Figueiredo-as-Tapestry-Committer-td21917887i20.html#a22047791. > > -- ================================================== dott. Ivano Mario Luberti Archimede Informatica societa' cooperativa a r. l. Sede Operativa Via Gereschi 36 - 56126- Pisa tel.: +39-050- 580959 tel/fax: +39-050-9711344 web: www.archicoop.it ================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
