February 27, 2003
Cluefull people get rewarded
What an evening. I've been copying the 700+ MB which holds my Mozilla profile back and forth for several times, and am now running the 1.3 bèta version to get rid of some other post-rescue issues, so I'm betting on more fun coming up ahead. All in all, it looks like 1.3 is a bit snappier than the 1.2 I had running for quite some time, so hopefully they'll move out of beta soon and I can get on with my life.Which means I'm desperately trying to get a grip on my steadily incoming mail queue, while browsing some interesting thread on community at apache.org on the creation of a jar repository. Lots of stuff is kinda happening these days in Apache-land, more on a community- and open-source-sociology-level than in terms of hard code and projects. In various little ways, the not-so-newly-elected board is making its difference. Flattening project hierarchies, mass-nomination of PMC members, trying to make projects less dependent on the board's wisdom, while keeping a grip on stuff going on...: it's only after quite some time that the difference in style and focus is becoming obvious. Some people like this, other don't. Fun to watch, even more fun to actually participate in some of it.
The circle of Apache people is growing again, and this time it's a special one. Bruno just got proposed as a Cocoon committer, and has been voted upon with an abundance of +1's. Which means that a) yes, Outerthought is staffed exclusively with Apache committers (there's no company like that in Belgium, but admittedly being only with 3 makes comparison quite difficult), and b) the challenge lays again in front of us. Congrats to Bruno, of course.