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From: Simon Helsen <shelsen@ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:55:54 -0400
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Paolo,

I am not sure what are you trying to say with your message here. I realize 
that open source projects don't come for free. I also realize that not all 
bugs get fixed either. However, the existence and viability of open source 
is based on a mutual benefit of the parties involved (see [3]) and I think 
you are seeing benefits from my testing work. IBM has a long history in 
supporting open source initiatives wherever appropriate and possible, 
whether this is something like the Eclipse Foundation or the Apache 
Foundation itself (with countless donations and being a gold sponsor). 
This support benefits you probably at this very moment, e.g. if you are 
developing in Eclipse.

In this particular instance (i.e. Jena), we are extensively testing new 
TxTDB code and providing feedback. We may or may not adopt it, depending 
on the outcome of our tests (and a bunch of other factors of course), so 
this feedback may not even benefit us. The problems I am running into will 
almost certainly come back to you. We are just providing early discovery 
and I do what I can to help get them resolved. I am pressing for them to 
be resolved because if they are not, it is going to be a pain for me to 
adopt it because of the enormous time it takes to adopt just about 
anything open-source related in IBM. We have lawyers literally going over 
all the code and we cannot decide on short notice to upgrade or adopt a 
new version of any project like this. It just doesn't work like that. I 
looked at [2] and I am not sure what you are missing? 

I also respect the work done in Jena and I wish I could leverage more 
resources, but those are not my decisions. If we do end up adopting, I may 
be able to convince my line management to invest more (including more time 
for myself as well as perhaps hiring the services of certain companies 
involved with Jena). We analyze these things constantly. 

You have a nice weekend as well,

Simon

PS: on a Friday night, I would probably not even work on [1], but I hope 
that on a Monday morning [4] becomes an interesting challenge in achieving 
"consistently high quality software " as pointed out in [5] under 
Phylosophy

[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-131
[5] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#management


From:
Paolo Castagna <castagna.lists@googlemail.com>
To:
jena-dev@incubator.apache.org
Date:
11/04/2011 03:06 PM
Subject:
Re: What are the JIRA issues to fix before a release?


Hi,
on a side note (it's Friday evening here, so maybe now I'll be doing 
something
"fun" [1]), it's great to report bugs and provide feedback in general.

I do sometimes report bugs to open source projects I use. If I am able, I 
submit
a patch, but I do not pretend or assume that just because I reported a 
bug, the
bug will be fixed. It's does not work like that. It depends on individuals 
and
here in Apache we are all individuals.

The "getting involved" [2] page on the Apache Jena website tries to show 
people
the path: submit bug reports/feedback >> use the SNAPSHOTs to stay on the
bleeding edge >> checkout the sources and get used to it >> look around at 
the
other open issues >> find something you care about or like and submit a 
patch
(repeat, repeat, ...) >> engage with other committers more >> learn more 
about
Apache and how it works >> ...

One of the principle in Apache is "meritocracy: literally, government by 
merit"
[3]. I think it's a good one, one I believe in.

Have a nice week-end,
Paolo

  [1] 
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jena/Jena2/TDB/branches/hash-ids/

  [2] http://incubator.apache.org/jena/getting_involved/
  [3] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy


Simon Helsen wrote:
> I would like to see both
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-131
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-143
> 
> resolved
> 
> I provided input for 131 - I still have to try to produce a test-case 
for 
> 143, but depending on the origin of 131, it may be connected to the 
> problem in 143
> 
> thanks
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:
> Paolo Castagna <castagna.lists@googlemail.com>
> To:
> jena-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Date:
> 11/04/2011 09:21 AM
> Subject:
> What are the JIRA issues to fix before a release?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> today, I have time to work on Jena.
> 
> What are the JIRA issues to fix before a release?
> 
> Paolo
> 
> 
> 
> 


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