activiti activity dwindling ?

[heymjo]

Hi,

Just thought i'ld voice a bit my concern here.

Looking at the commit activity graph here https://fisheye.codehaus.org/changelog/activiti/ over the last year, i cannot help but noticing that the 'activity' on 'activiti' has declined rather visibly over the last 5-6 months.

[img]https://fisheye.codehaus.org/fe/commitSparkline.do?w=276&h=70&context=changelog&repname=activiti&ima...[/img]

Since we have chosen Activiti as our workflow platform for the coming years this worries me just a tiny bit at the moment. I've seen this happening a few times on corporate opensource projects and it does not always have a positive outcome.

Any reassuring thoughts to be shared ? (yes i know i can always get involved myself and make things happen etc etc but that is not what this is about)

Thanks !

[trademak]

Bernd,

One remark on your statement that Alfresco does ECM and Camunda does BPM.
Of course you are right if you look at Alfresco on a product level, but Activiti is an independent open source project and therefore not limited to the usage of ECM.
The Activiti project will always provide an embeddable BPM engine and that can be used in ECM projects, but also in BPM projects.

The Activiti Designer is not only developed by Alfresco but also by contributors who are really into BPM.

Best regards,

[trademak]

Jira's popular issues filter is always a good start for pointers on what users want (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissue...).
Also, few things are more demotivating than having your carefully crafted patch sit in Jira for a few months without any feedback. Looking at Jira there are currently 40 open issues containing the word patch, going through the first 10 i found several of them without any feedback at all. Taking care of your patch queue is a good way to attract new people on the project.

Right, point taken. But it always helps to contact a member of the Activiti team directly to get it patch committed.
But you are right that we should at least provide some feedback.

Best regards,