Btw, S4 is short a mentor. It would be great if one or two IPMC members could volunteer and help Arun and I with mentorship duties.
Regards, Patrick On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Jukka, I'm also concerned for S4 not having a release and low > activity. I pinged them about cutting a release a couple months ago > and they said they weren't ready. As for activity there is some > mailing list traffic but almost no jira/commits listed in april/may. > > For Bigtop i've been tracking diversity. A couple weeks ago I reviewed > their recent commits and didn't see anyone that might be a good fit > for new committer. I know they are trying hard though hosting events, > helping new contributors, etc... but so far diversity continues to be > low. Perhaps someone will have some insight on how to gather new > contributors that hasn't been tried yet? > > Patrick > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> There's plenty of time still before the June reports [1] start flowing >> in. As an early remainder to podlings starting to draft their reports, >> here's how the IPMC saw your status as of the previous quarterly >> report in March [2]: >> >> IP clearance: Openmeetings >> No release: Bloodhound, Cordova, OpenOffice >> Low activity: Kalumet, Kato >> Low diversity: Bigtop, Etch, Isis, HCatalog, S4, Wave >> Ready to graduate: Flume >> >> Has the situation in your podling changed over the last three months? >> If not, what's your plan for improving the situation? Is there >> anything for which you'd appreciate more help? >> >> I'm especially worried about Kato as it seems like the project has >> more or less died even though the JSR 326 / Oracle trouble got finally >> sorted out. Is it time to retire the project or can we hope for a >> revival? >> >> I also wanted to start preparing for this reporting round in good time >> by assigning shepherds [3] already now. Using a fuzzy algorithm based >> on the available volunteers, their stated preferences, and the >> podlings they're already mentoring, I came up with the following >> initial assignments that I've also recorded on the wiki page: >> >> Benson Margulies - CloudStack, HCatalog, Kato >> Dave Fisher - Bloodhound, Flume >> Matt Franklin - Bigtop, Flex, Openmeetings >> Matt Hogstrom - Cordova, OpenOffice.org >> Jukka Zitting - Etch, Isis, S4 >> Mohammad Nour - Kalumet >> Ross Gardler - Wave >> >> Feel free to shuffle these around or ask for someone else to fill in >> if you're expecting to be too busy for the extra reviews in early >> June. Other IPMC members and interested observers, please jump in and >> volunteer as extra shepherds if you'd like to help this effort. >> >> As discussed earlier, shepherds are not there to replace existing >> mentors. If everything is going well with a project, the shepherd can >> simply acknowledge a report and move on. If there are any relevant >> questions that the report doesn't answer, the shepherd may ask the >> podling and its mentors for more details. And finally if something >> seems wrong, the shepherd should raise a flag for the mentors and the >> rest of the IPMC to focus on. Most importantly, we need to be talking >> *with* the podlings, not just *about* them, so especially any >> constructive and encouraging feedback to them will be highly useful. >> >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/June2012 >> [2] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2012 >> [3] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorShepherds >> >> BR, >> >> Jukka Zitting >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
