Jakarta - Internal project health audit..
am 07.04.2007 18:19:28 von Martin van den BemtHi everyone,
A lot of things happening at Jakarta atm and even though I have some views on where Jakarta could
end up, things are in no way set.
On thing that I think needs to be done is to establish what the health of your project is. Which
means you have to look internal.
Things to consider :
1) Number of *active* committers
2) Do the active committers have a binding vote.
3) Is your project able to do a release with just the *active* people.
4) Are you investing time to *build* a developer community.
5) Is there any possibility that a community can be build at all?
1 2 and 3 can be solved by 4 :)
5 could make 4 impossible or useless.
So please invest time in building a developer community so you are able to live on your own. Not
saying everyone has to live on their own, but if you *can* you are healthy :)
My feeling is that 4 is something we really need to work on and the only way to achieve that is
doing it while the developer community is still active.
Where I find the time, I will try to ping individual projects.
Mvgr,
Martin