Re: Please name new maintainers

I think it's too late.

Looking at the project page their hasn't been a new release in nearly 2
years and the latest log entries in CVS are 20 months old.

At this point perhaps the only thing that could save it would be a
desperate appeal on Slashdot or Digg for new maintainers.

Personally, just last week I talked to our last client using EVMS about
wiping their SAN and starting over without EVMS because it's just plain
not supported or maintainable.

I thought Novell might pick it up because they were showing some
interest in clustering but that hasn't happened.

John

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:51 +0900, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs said:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as more and more people get the impression that EVMS is unmaintained these 
> > days and first distributions start to kick it out (Ubuntu), I would like to 
> > ask the current (former?) maintainers at IBM to either continue their great 
> > work on EVMS or officially call for new maintainers ASAP.
> > 
> > I (and I guess many other users) would hate to see this great software fade 
> > away.
> > 
> > Thanks...
> > 
> > 	Dirk
> 
> Agreed - is there someone "higher up" at IBM that people on this list
> can contact to show that there is still interest in the project, and
> that there are IT people all over the world who would appreciate IBM
> again putting some resources onto the project?
> 
> Of course the project is hosted on SourceForge so as long as the three
> Project Admins remain contactable, they can allow other developers to
> join the project and continue the maintenance.  Once upon a time there
> was a thing in SF where a project could ask for help on a sort of
> bulletin board (help offered/help wanted).  I just had a quick look but
> can't find that any more.  There was also a bounty system I think, where
> a user could post a project's bug or feature request to a list and if a
> developer did it, they got the money.  Not sure if that still exists
> either ...
> 
> Andrew.



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