Re: [Mason] Summary - Who's using Mason CM

[Jaron J. R. <ja...@lo...>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Swayne, Mark A wrote:

> This is a followup post to my recent Who's using Mason CM, the
> promised summary of replies.  I'm trying to summarize, so I hope I
> don't butcher what anyone has said too badly.  If so, my apologies.

I apparently missed the original thread by a couple of days -- I
apologize. Michael Alan Dorman and I are currently the "maintainers" of
the Mason-CM project. Jon Swartz asked us to take it over sometime last
fall because we had some exciting plans for future development. Those
included some of the ideas that have been generated in the past few days
such as the use of CVS instead of RCS, and a general update to newer Mason
methodologies. My original list of enhancements include:

- CVS support
- integration with a bug/problem reporting tool
- better support for multiple projects, perhaps through database-interaction
- better support for 'builds' and 'releases' (perhaps through CVS or RCS tags)

You also mentioned that you e-mailed both maintainers about the project.
My apologies if I received your e-mail and didn't respond, but I don't
have any record of you e-mailing me in the past.

It looks like you've got a lot of great ideas for Mason-CM, and some
business justification for helping to develop it.

Michael and I have contributed little to the project thus far due to
severe time limitations. We created the SourceForge project, imported the
files, and made a few minor changes, but that's it. I am very interested
in continuing to work on the project, but the time I can devote to actual
development continues to be limited. When I initially took over as a
maintainer, I had expected that others would be interested in contributing
to the project, and that some key contributors would sign up. I would like
to continue in my role of managing the project, and contributing code
whenever possible.

I'd like to start an open discussion on the
mas...@li... list about future direction for the
Mason-CM tool. I welcome all those interested in working on the project in
any capacity. Once we come up with a list of goals for the next version,
I'd like to put together a development roadmap to ensure that the
development effort is guided towards a unified goal. The SourceForge
system make it easy for a number of users to contribute to this project.

Let's continue this discussion on mason-cm-users,

                                -Jaron

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Jaron Rubenstein, Logicept
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www.logicept.com