Greets, Here are notes by shepherds and Mentors extracted from our September 2013 report.
Shepherd participation was light this month; a few stalwarts seem to have quietly fallen away. Thanks to them for their past efforts... If there are volunteers out there interested in shepherding, please speak up -- we have slots. (Sheperding can be as minimal as scanning the mailing list archives to ensure that a podling's Mentors have been engaged over the last quarter, or it can involve observations and opinions as per the style of most present shepherds.) The full exchange regarding Drill has been included in this compendium, though it was removed from the Board meeting agenda and thus will not end up the Board's minutes. The conversation continued on general@incubator at <http://s.apache.org/ORg>. Marvin Humphrey -------------------- Apache: Project Drill Shepherd notes: (Dave Fisher/wave) I am concerned the podling is missing the DISCLAIMER in its source code and on most web pages. There is a lot of activity but it does not seem to include any drive to make any release. There is tremendous community building activity. Heavy on community and light on Release/IP. Rebuttal to shepherd notes: (Ted Dunning/tdunning) I think that the Dave is substantially incorrect in his assessment that there "does not seem to include any drive to make any release". This is factually and patently incorrect. I have asked that the shepherd reconsider this comment and retract it as it does not reflect the substantial progress that the community is making towards a release. (Isabel Drost-Fromm/ Apache Mahout, mentor Drill) Dave, as for the missing disclaimer - there are still a few branding issues with Drill. The project is currently on it's way to the first release - for a discussion on an initial RC and issues related to it see also http://markmail.org/thread/gl2z6dbcsjkbdelx In the process of preparing this release a couple issues surfaced that seemed more fundamental and are now in the process of being fixed. The Drill community reacted very positively to the input they got and are diligently fixing problems. Mentors provided several links both to Apache-wide as well as Incubator-specific documentation on what needs to be checked for an Apache release. The next RC will show how helpful that turns out to be with fixing the existing problems. (Grant Ingersoll, mentor) Unlike most Incubator projects, Drill is starting from scratch code-wise and community-wise and thus it will take longer to release, IMO. AFAICT, the community has sustainable development underway. That being said, I was just thinking it needed to do a release and then lo and behold there was an RC and a vote. As Isabel points out, the community has responded well to the feedback on the release. Once this release is out, I would expect the community to release more often, but other than that, I think the community is developing well, and is, in fact, doing some novel community building things like Google Hangouts that are open to anyone and which I think are very positive. -------------------- Kalumet Shepherd notes: (rvs) Look like project is on track. Nothing jumped out at me as requiring any special attention. Mentors seem to be pretty engaged and steering the project in the right direction. -------------------- MRQL Shepherd notes: (rvs) Project looks reasonably well off -- no major surprises. I was a little bit surprised by a very low JIRA activity but on the other hand they've got an exemplary Wiki and ML traffic is not too shabby either. -------------------- S4 Shepherd notes: (Dave Fisher/Wave) S4 knows how make releases. Is concerned about community growth and think that may impede graduation. I think that they are actually ready to graduate. -------------------- Streams Shepherd notes: (rvs) Look like project is on track. Nothing jumped out at me as requiring any special attention, except it would be nice to have to have a second release out (since the first release was done immediately after entering an incubation). -------------------- Wave Shepherd notes: Mentor notes: Ben Laurie and Vincent Siveton have stepped down as Mentors, leaving the project with two active mentors. Currently this is not an issue. (christian) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
