I detect some sarcasm... My philosophy:
Too many commits kill an open source community due to bugs. Too few commits kill an open source community due to lack of progress (where we are). A perfect example: Jakarta commons. Those projects are exploding with incredible communities. If non-committers feel that their contributions aren't well received, especially when the code is of good quality, they will stop contributing. Just because one or the other committer may not use a piece of code, doesn't mean the community won't use it, or that it won't turn into a valuable enhancement. Scratchpad projects are only used by developers devoted to knowing an open source project intimately. If we want the community to use something, it must be in the main trunk, or it must be a main subproject. Scratchpad == not supported. A commercial xml database is feature rich. We are still on a path to remaining feature poor, but with some 'unsupported' stuff in scratchpad. This project needs to work out of the box, either standalone or as a webapp, or as embedded, and it needs to be full featured. eXist users benefit from out-of-the-box, and I believe we loose some people to that project because they can download, unzip, and run the startup script. Whallah, xml database. We are very prepared to do the same. In addition, it starts up with a pleasant looking cocoon-based admin interface, with query ability. Ok, enough of my rant. What other ideas are out there to help grow the community involvement? How would the Xindice community react if the eXist community was interested in joining forces? -Kevin Ross -----Original Message----- From: Vladimir R. Bossicard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MemValueIndexer > I'm +1 for adding these to the main trunk. If there are no objections, > I'll do so. Xindice absolutely needs some more code in the main trunk because we have far too few code to manage. It's getting boring since we don't have bugs anymore, users are happy, the releases are going well... -> scratchpad -Vladimir -- Vladimir R. Bossicard Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
