On 8/26/06, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I'm with Geir. What does dormancy have to do with it? Dormancy is >>> the opposite of our plans. > >> Martin brought it up as a worry for Velocity moving to TLP.
Who started it doesn't explain what dormancy has to do with it. Unless you guys already consider Velocity to be dormant (see below for my disagreement there), then this is irrelevant as we are talking about the opposite of ceasing activity.
>> "My main concern here is that when no external projects join, will the >> project move into dormant state ?"
Of course not. And i protest the assumptions hidden in the question. :)
>> So my view is that I'd rather see a dormant velocity.apache, than a >> dormant jakarta-velocity - if I had to see one of the two that is.
Ok.
> Hi, > > as I said before, I do want to distinguish between "dormant" and "stable". Just > because Velocity does not apply any patch that comes floating around and releases every other week, doesn't mean, that the project is dormant. We, as developers, are just picky what should go in and what not. :-) > With dormant in this case I mean that there is not high activity anymore (from a dev perspective that is). The problem with the words stable/mature is that it doesn't necessarily make a statement about the activity.
To me (and perhaps Geir and Henning, given their comments), "dormant" says nothing is happening whereas "stable" implies that little development is happening. "Stable" is more positive and a much better fit for a project with little (but not zero!) development activity and plenty of user activity. Better to just imply little development than to make a statement that makes things seem in total less active than they are. So, any chance that we can get back to discussing the merits of Velocity becoming a TLP given that Velocity is not "dormant" and does not plan to become so? :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
