Re: Subversion in 2010

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Hyrum K. Wright
<hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
>>
>> With the pace of wc-ng slowed to a crawl it seems like we are going to
>> have a hard time even getting that feature to the point of a release.
>> Why would we want to even consider stuffing another feature into the
>> mix?
>>
>> We cannot stop people from working on the features they want to work
>> on, and obliterate is often requested, so if the feature materializes
>> in time for a release great.  But I'd hope we are all redoubling our
>> efforts on finishing wc-ng so we can do this release and start seeing
>> the performance improvements it can bring.
>
> I too, would like to see wc-ng completed soon.  It just a question of resources.  As you
> have noticed, with only two or three people working on it, the bus factor isn't too high.  The
> best way to get wc-ng completed would be for folks to start (or continue) hacking, and for
> people who have influence over development resources to allocate those resources in a
> manner which encourages wc-ng completion.  A team of two or three working full-time is
> going to take a while; a larger group of folks can help expedite it significantly.

I understand, and it is one of the reasons I keep prodding. It seems
like more alarms need to be raised publicly with an accompanying call
for help. I am not on IRC 24/7 and from the silence in the list, I
keep thinking that people are "about" to get working on it again. But
it seems like not very much has happened since October, as opposed to
the flurry of activity in the few months leading up to that.

I agree we need to get more people involved. I keep wanting to tell
Paul and Mike to devote more time specifically to WC-NG. It feels
like there is a lack of public direction though. What is the plan?
What has been completed? What is left to do? Who is already working
on some of these items?

Put another way, if I asked Paul and Mike to focus on helping, then
where do they start? What do they work on? Where are there hints as
to what to do? I think this information is even more critical for
people that maybe only have a few hours every few days to work on
this. Where would they even start or no what to do?

Finally, who exactly is still working on WC-NG? It seems like it is
mostly just you now and that your time for this is only a small
fraction of that. So in reality it seems like we have maybe .25
people working on this, not 2 or 3.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/