Hi Ray, > On Nov 29, 2019, at 6:52 PM, Ray Ma <d...@rayma.me.INVALID> wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > If the Incubator was to accept this project for incubation, what does that > mean for the current policy on acceptable communication channels? Would > methods other than apache lists be acceptable as "official", as long as > they use this project?
This is a proof of concept and it's premature to discuss changing policy. Regards, Craig > > Thanks, > Ray > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:02 AM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> tldr; I'd like to discuss whether comdev is interested in sponsoring a >> robot project to help communications in the Chinese Apache community. >> >> At ApacheCon 2019 in Las Vegas, several people from the Chinese Apache >> community and members of comdev met to discuss how to improve >> communications. Several issues were raised, including the widespread use of >> chat-like social media for communications instead of mail lists. >> >> I subsequently met with several people in Beijing while attending the >> Tencent Techo conference. We discussed technical approaches to helping with >> communications, and started to focus on a robot to help manage social media >> with the goal of meeting Apache requirements for "important" project >> communications: >> - archived message storage >> - English language >> - permanent message storage >> - searchable message storage >> >> I proposed starting an incubator podling to help guide them in the Apache >> Way >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/OSSBotProposal >> Several people have already volunteered to help mentor the project, >> including Ted Liu, Liang Zhang, Willem Jiang, Junping Du and Craig Russell. >> >> But there are a few reasons that incubating now might not be the right >> path: >> - many of the tools are open source with their own communities >> - it is not clear what the code deliverable would be from the podling >> >> There are now several people involved in the project, and they have >> started having regular meetings. >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K3-rbiIUDSJoGyH0g4zEvhYZL2T6HsKgfsiI0xCCCa0/comment >> >> There are several Apache podlings with an interest in this project, >> including DolphinScheduler, Doris, IoTDB, ShardingSphere and Weex. >> >> The question I'd like to raise here is whether comdev is interested in >> sponsoring this project, which would involve creating a mail list for the >> project and some amount of infrastructure to run the proof of concept/pilot >> robot. >> >> Craig L Russell >> c...@apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> >> Craig L Russell c...@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
