[technology-pmc] Re: [babel-dev] Babel Project review

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will attend the call.

Wayne

Antoine Toulme wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> this might not be my place, and Kit might be compiling an answer to your
> questions right now, anyways:
> Would you be available at 10 AM PST to join us on the Babel development call
> ? That way we could discuss and solve those issues ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Antoine
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Greetings Babel Project members
> >
> > I've done a quick review of your project. In general, it seems as though
> > the project is progressing well. I am happy with the level of community
> > involvement. My own experience shows that there is a lot of buzz around this
> > project; you are clearly doing good things.
> >
> > I'd like to see the project summary page cleaned up with a better, more
> > concise, description. Further, I'd like to see an up-to-date plan, and a
> >  release scheduled.
> >
> > Here are some specifics:
> >
> > The description on the project summary page renders poorly. I believe that
> > the project's landing page is being used for the description. It would be
> > better if you could make an actual separate file that contains only the
> > description of the project.
> >
> > The newsgroup has steady (though relatively low) volume. Similarly, the
> > babel-translator mailing list, which seems to be focused at a similar
> > audience, also has steady volume. It does seem that most questions are
> > getting answered in a timely manner and, judging by the length of some of
> > the exchanges, a healthy (albeit relatively small) community seems to be
> > developing.
> >
> > Information to help would-be contributors set up a development environment
> > is under the "Contributors" tab which may seem reasonable enough; however,
> > the grayed out "Getting Started" tab was initially off-putting and led me to
> > believe that this documentation was just not available. It'd be nice to see
> > Team Project Sets/Buckminster scripts/whatever for setting up the workspace.
> >
> > There are 283 Bugs against Babel in the system. There appears to be a lot
> > of diversity in the reporters, which again is a good indicator of healthy
> > community development.
> >
> > The babel-dev list suggests a high-level of interactivity between project
> > members. This is good stuff.
> >
> > Committer activity in CVS appears to be slowing. There are 99 bugs open
> > against Babel which seems to indicate that there is still work to do.
> > Does this indicate that a release is pending?
> >
> > There are no releases indicated on the project summary page. The project
> > plan seems out of date, listing an "M0" release in January 2008. There are
> > no other dates indicated in the plan. The plan needs to be updated and a
> > release scheduled. It'd be nice to see the plan in the standard form.
> >
> > Only one project mentor is indicated in the project summary. Is there a
> > second mentor?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wayne
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