Re: [DataVision-users] Friendly Take-Over

[Charles W. <ch...@sc...>]

Jim,

We are most distressed by your announcement because
a) DataVision is such a *useful* and *usable* product, and
b) because of your willingness to answer our daft questions in such a 
timely manner!

However, as someone who routinely takes on more than I can manage, I 
have to respect your positive decision to retire rather than slope off 
leaving us in the dark!!

I am not into the code of DataVision; and I use it for Java/Swing 
applications, which I suspect is rather a minority usage. However, I 
have a working life's experience working with report generators, and I 
have developed some rather solid principles to which I think they should 
adhere. So I would be willing to do some configuration control work on 
the functionality and defects. Prioritising work, release plan etc., if 
this is of any use. [Perhaps I had better upgrade to 1.0 first, 
though!!]. Could you point me to your current TODO list?

Yours,

Charles Whittington

Jim Menard wrote:

> Dear DataVision Users,
>
> The time has come. If it hasn't been blindingly obvious by the lack of 
> bug fixes and releases, and by my lack of responses to your questions 
> recently, I no longer have the time or energy it takes to support, 
> maintain, and enhance DataVision.
>
> If you are interested in taking over DataVision, please contact me. 
> Better yet, start a discussion on the DataVision mailing list. Perhaps 
> more than one person is interested, and you could work together.
>
> I will be happy to hand over the keys (the Subversion repository) and 
> make somebody else the SourceForge administrator for DataVision. I 
> will also be available to answer questions about the code ("What the 
> heck were you thinking?!?") and otherwise support the new team.
>
> Thank you for using DataVision. It has been thrilling to see 
> DataVision used by so many people in so many places all over the world.
>
> Jim