Re: Recent check-in...

James has helped me out on Commons projects, so I figure I owe him a
bit of time :) Especially as the below doesn't need much Hivemind
knowledge.

First - complaints about the site:

1) Takes effort to find the svn url for Hivemind. "Project
Information", the Maven default, is never a good way for developers to
find something. The webpage needs a link to the svn page, or a
developer page that links to the svn page and the dev list.

2) Given that - it's not obvious where to file bugs, or where users
should talk. Plus side is that the site navigation is minor, but it's
still a random click away. Replace the project information bit with
the elements inside it at the top level. If that makes sense :)

3) The svn page is for the site. And a bad url at that as it would
check everything out.

4) Which of hivemind1/hivemind2 is the live development. This would be
obvious if the svn instructions point to one, but is often good to say
what the deal is with the 2nd version.

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On the email below - moving the tests into the test tree makes sense,
and 'mvn clean install' succeeds for me [jdk 1.5 on OS X]. The tests
seem to cause System.out noise - those should be asserts or not there
imo (debugging should be temporary).

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A couple of further thoughts:

*) If you can (any of you here) - for a minor release it's best to
stagger your activity in small chunks, than waiting for large periods
of time to be available. Continual small levels of activity grow
community activity better than unpredictable and large levels of
activity. So better to set aside a little time in the week. [It's the
other way around for new development I think - so different for 2.0].

*) Activity begats activity. I'm willing to bet that there is a very
odd curve in forums/lists between 1 entry on a thread and N entries.
There's something about a reply that creates a conversation, when the
first email was just fishing. I think it's because the first email
feels like a one-to-one conversation, and when you realize someone
else is reading the email you change how you're approaching the
emails. So the advice there is - a little reply can go a long way.
Those annoying replies with nothing but '+1' in, actually play a
crucial role in the activity of a community.

Thanks for listening :)

Hen

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:23 AM, James Carman
<james@...> wrote:
> All,
>
> I just checked in some changes to the pom.xml files and moved the
> HiveMindTestCase into src/test.  Let me know how it looks for you.
> All test cases passed for me.  I might try to move stuff around into
> the "normal" maven directories, too (src/main/java, etc.)
>
> James
>