[Devel] Focus

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Mark Freeman wrote:

> All,
>
> I just read Asheesh notes on why it is important to focus 
> (http://www.asheesh.org/scribble/people/pay-attention.html) and it rang 
> very true for me as well. Unfortunately, work is crazy right now and I 
> have a lot of things going on career-wise.  This has meant that most of 
> my spare time has been studying for things I use at work, or beginning a 
> new certification track.  I keep telling myself that I will make time 
> for Openhatch, but I see that I am spread way too thin and likely will 
> not do anything well as a result.

Well, I can't blame you, if I inspired this change! (-:

> I need to take a little hiatus while I settle things down a little.  I 
> love OH and being involved with this project, so I plan to stick around 
> and be a part of the community at the least.  Hopefully in a few months 
> things will calm down some and I can get back on track committing to the 
> project.  Maybe I can even help with some smaller documentation/bug 
> triage things as I have time to help out!
>
> That being said, I am going to open up the API task for whoever would 
> like to work on them.  After looking at several options, my personal 
> suggestion is try implementing them with tastypie.  If no one works on 
> them before I can get back to contributing code, I'll pick it up then.

I have a question which I'll bring up in a separate thread.

But anyway, do let us know how your Java programmer user group event goes 
where you discuss open source!

-- Asheesh.