Lovd by Less Needs More Love
written by Steven on September 10, 2008
It has occurred to me lately that the biggest problem with Lovd by Less is me. I am too busy and too slow and the community is suffering because of it. (Those of you waiting for responses or pull requests know exactly what I mean.)
So I would like to find someone who can step up to the plate and make Lovd their project. I would like someone who is more responsive but has the same vision of keeping the feature list tight. Feel free to respond to me in the google group or directly if you are interested. I will be choosing someone based one their ability to keep on top of responses to google group and their ability to do code reviews and participate in the community. I will still be here to help and hope to work with who ever steps up to the plate. I will be posting pull requests to the google group so people can look them over and give me and their author feedback. I am hoping that this process will be very transparent and it should become obvious who the candidates are based on their participation.
If you are unhappy with Lovd, this might be the time to fork Lovd and try to move the community in your direction. I am only interested in what is best for the community and not my (nor anyone else's) ego.
If you sent a pull request that has gone unanswered, please repost it to the google group.
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Steven Bristol has written code for the past 20 years. He like green vegetables and kittens, oh and butterflies too. He loves to throw ninja stars at his enemies.
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Hi Steven,
I’m a big fan of Lovd and think there definitely needs to be an active open source RoR social network project. I didn’t see anyone on the Google Group really pushing to be the maintainer so I thought I’d put out a feeler.
We’re a social network company built on Rails and it’s always been my intention to open source our social network infrastructure. There’s a lot in Lovd that I like, especially as you have a wonderful front-end. But I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes or create a situation that’s too jarring for the community.
If you’re not getting strong candidates privately, then I’d love a chance to exchange some emails.
@Tony,
Thanks for the offer. I’m basically looking for one or two people to join the team with commit rights. I think my post made it sound more like I wanted to give the project away and the truth is I just need some help.
I’m going to be picking someone based on their involvement with the project, so please feel free to jump in.
Thanks,
steve