[jdom-interest] RE: jdom-interest digest, Vol 1 #1153 - 11 msgs

John McDonnell john at infonomicon.com
Wed Mar 12 23:33:16 PST 2003


Re Jason's message; 

I would like to see the todo.txt - JDOM is important in my work, so if I
could contribute I would; not knowing what's needed for the 'spit and
polish' has held me back.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the same way.

Cheers,

John.

>Message: 8
>Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:00:05 -0800
>From: Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com>
>To: Jason Long <jason at supernovasoftware.com>
>Cc: JDOM <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
>Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?

>I could write a long paper on the lifecycle of JDOM and probably will
someday.  The short summary appropos 
>to your concerns is that after I went self employed a little over a
year ago, my free time dried up.  I 
>offered JDOM stewardship to a few individuals, but they declined. 
>Laurent and Brad are still energetic and great coders and have fixed
any bugs as they've appeared, but the >project's been going without a
strong rudder.  I realize we need to get to a 1.0 and have been trying
to arrange my schedule to help lead that.  I think as part of that we'll
drop some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas and just concentrate on the last
bit of spit and polish.  Finalize everything so people can rely on it
and be happy.

Here's my plan:
1) I'll propose a new TODO.txt based on what's there now and what's
   flagged in my inbox
2) We'll solicit feedback for anything else that needs to be in 1.0
3) We'll divide the items into well-defined, concrete actions
4) People can volunteer to perform the actions
5) When all actions are done we'll manage the 1.0 release

As far as the JCP goes, I think it's more important with limited
resources to get a 1.0 software release out.  To push JDOM through the
JCP process would require a volunteer to lead it.

-jh-





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