On 18 Aug 2006, at 22:50, Chris Johnson wrote:
In fact, so much so, that thousands of people use and depend upon it.
But it is an extremely complicated module that takes a long time to understand, so as the author I continue to maintain it and upgrade it, and do so with great care and speed. More and more people use it.
Blessing your module with a "golden star" is not going to magically cultivate the wilderness. If you are the single maintainer, and you happen to be a bottleneck (because you're having a sabbatical in the Andes or simply because you have too much work), a golden star is not going to magically upgrade your module nor is it going to send hordes of developers to your patch queue. No, that would be a crack dream. :) What you need (and what you really want) is people that know your module inside out (!), that share your vision for the module (!), and that can help you maintain it (!). If your module is that important, it is your responsibility to build such team, to get people on board and to delegate responsibilities by making other people co- maintainers. If you want to be a responsible maintainer, it's part of the job description to find, motivate, guide and empower people to take on a role within your project and to make it sustain. I know because I learned to do exactly that. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/