+1 to a Slack channel and meetings more often.
Josh Juneau
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Sorry I'm so late to the party, but I think it's safe to say the EG has
> overall been pretty quiet. Honestly, I think it's because no one has a lot
> of time available, including the spec leads. That being said, we've got to
> continue to move forward, and I'm glad that Arjan and Bauke have been
> pushing so hard.
>
> Has anyone thought about creating a Slack channel instead of IRC? I'm fine
> with IRC, but Slack is hipper these days so we might get some more
> interest. Either, way, some sort of bi-weekly meeting is an excellent idea.
> My guess is sometime early in the morning (PT) would work.
>
> Ed and Manfred, it would help if you could remind us what everyone's
> assignments are; I don't think everything is in JIRA (please correct me if
> I'm wrong). I know I have an issue related to synchronizing tokens on my
> plate.
>
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> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:53 AM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to share some concerns about the level of activity of this EG.
>>
>> I'm very happy with the recent proposal by Bauke, but apart from that,
>> activity currently doesn't seem to be at the same level as it once was.
>>
>> If you look at the commits in the RI, then it's quite clear that activity
>> is a little down, even after the master branch was opened again. See
>> https://github.com/javaserverfaces/mojarra/commits/master
>>
>> Looking at the amount of actual features being developed for JSF 2.3
>> (e.g. actual code), then when JSF 2.3 just started Manfred was doing an
>> amount of commits for the initial CDI alignment feature, but after
>> approximately early 2015 I didn't see JSF 2.3 feature commits from him
>> anymore (please correct me if I'm wrong, I may have missed something).
>>
>> As for Ed, there were some clarifications during 2015 and one bigger
>> feature just before JavaOne (validateWholeBean). I'm not entirely sure if
>> that feature is deemed fully ready wrt to the implementation (the spec
>> issue is closed though), but after JavaOne no more commits were being done
>> for it.
>>
>> As for the various EG members, a variety of issues were assigned to
>> different people, but I've not yet seen many patches or code commits for
>> those. The only one that comes to mind is the Java 8 JSR 310 from Josh and
>> Ed (again, correct me if I missed something).
>>
>> Now my own activity is down too, so I know I'm to blame as well, but that
>> still doesn't take away that IMHO activity could improve a little. It's now
>> almost 2016, so perhaps a good time to reflect on what we have accomplished
>> last year and what we plan to accomplish next year ;)
>>
>> Something that may help here is a scheduled bi-weekly IRC chat, just to
>> see where we stand and were we're heading.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Arjan Tijms
>>
>>
>>
>