Navel gazing : Apache-style
There is one week left in the month and there are 355 emails on general@incubator. What's cooking? There is a year end introspection going on at Apache. The longest thread (sofar 60 posts) is titled "Is the incubator out of control? ". Basically questioning all aspects of Apache life and focused on incubation process of new projects. Why the heavy focus on incubation? It was all Sam's fault :) He posted a proposal - "AJAX Toolkit Framework Proposal". Another long thread (so far 33 posts) was about what domain should the incoming projects use for mailing lists ("[VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists"). Yet another thread that had a serious debate going on was title "Incubating java projects" which started quite innocently - "Dumb question, is it a requirement that the incubating project move to
the org.apache package?". When was the last time there was this much traffic? Remember when Geronimo started? (560 posts on Sep 2003 and 560 in Oct 2003). So what's the news about that project. Please wait just a bit longer.
So what do i hope comes from this soul searching? How about a few New Year resolution to clean up the mess as a team and ensure that Apache continues to be as vibrant as ever. If u did not notice it's been 10 years since ASF started and oh boy what a ride it has been..If you ask when did i get involved, way back in Sept of 2000.
Happy holidays everyone!
Comments
my theory is that all the members are on holidays are have a bit of extra time to think about these kind of things.
Posted by: Ian Holsman | December 23, 2005 05:45 PM
Ian might have a good theory there. It's been a challenge to keep up with all the reading, but I think there's good introspection and debate going on. It's a natural part of our growth...
Posted by: Yoav Shapira | December 23, 2005 06:12 PM