Awesome news :D Congratulations Martin, really good news.
On 31 May 2010 15:39, Dan Kubb (dkubb) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'd like to take this time to officially welcome Martin Gamsjaeger to > the DataMapper core team. > > For those of you who have been involved in the DataMapper community > this will come as to no surprise. Martin (snusnu as he's known online) > has been tirelessly working on DataMapper, and specifically > integrating DM with Rails 3 and helping get things ready for the 1.0 > release next month at RailsConf. He has also been a great help in the > #datamapper IRC channel on freenode.net, helping people work through > problems and making sure DM integrates well with other frameworks. > > In the past we've never had an official core team, DM has been mostly > just run by one maintainer with several people helping out on specific > areas. We're at the point now where the community is too large to have > just a single person responsible for everything. Currently the DM core > team will consist of Martin and myself, and the team may grow over > time; but I do not expect more than 4-5 people overall since it can be > hard to maintain focus when there are too many competing interests. > > From the point of view of the community you'll likely see bug fixes > speeding up a bit, and more of a focus on making sure integration with > frameworks is smoother. Both Martin and I will be maintaining the ~40 > gems under the "datamapper" github account, but I still plan to focus > the majority of my time on the "core" and the overall architecture, > while Martin will be focusing on framework integration. In the near > term Rails 3 and the dm-rails project will be Martin's focus, and the > plan is to extract it's functionality into a dm-config base gem that > all frameworks can use to integrate cleanly with DM. > > Here are some links to Martin's github and twitter account if you're > interested in following him online: > > http://github.com/snusnu/ > http://twitter.com/__snusnu__ > > -- > > Thanks, > > Dan > (dkubb) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DataMapper" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<datamapper%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
