Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord. Members can only make efforts to evangelize the project and support the initial users of the project by answering questions and helping them out. We have tried do our part as the initial members of the community and we think that we have been reasonably successful towards our goals - given the complex technical nature of the project itself.
The beginnings of community building come from being open. When the project was still new it was important that people understand the motivations for the project and the core technical architecture of the code that seeded the project. In order to do that we published a series of deep technical blogs that describe the project and its technical architecture. http://goo.gl/sQ1QZb. There was considerable favorable reception about the quality of this series and brought a lot of mindshare to the project. Next we have spoken at a number of forums about Apache Tez. Here are the presentations that come to mind. 1) Hadoop Summit San Jose 2013 2) Hadoop Summit Amsterdam 2014 3) Beijing Big Data Technology Conference 2013 4) Bay Area Hadoop User Group 2014 5) Los Angeles Hadoop User Group 2013 6) Big Data Camp LA 2014 7) Seattle Scalability Meetup 2014 8) New York Hadoop User Group 2014 9) Hadoop Summit San Jose 2014 10) QConf San Francisco Conference 2013 11) Discovery 2020 Workshop at LBNL Berkeley 12) Big Data Gurus Meetup 2014 13) Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Meetup 2014 14) Presentation at MapR HQ on Apache Tez The community outreach events have been spread over time and geography and should represent substantial effort towards community building. Here is an example of the presentations we have made. http://goo.gl/BL67o7. More than 10 out of 48 slides are specifically there to motivate people to try out and dig deeper with Apache Tez because the main aim of these presentations is community outreach. The email lists are a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Initial questions are around simpler things like installation etc. But as people start getting deeper they start asking more technical questions and then start contributing to the project itself. Off-late there have been much more interesting questions around scheduling and control plane events and it reflects increasing usage and interest in the project. We should also look at the response times for emails on those lists. Almost all emails get answered within 1 day and most within 1 hour. We are a small community with strong motivation to increase our community of users and developers by addressing their roadblocks as soon as we can. Aside from dev mailing lists, the other measure of interaction is on the Apache Tez jira itself. Out of the 1200 jiras opened under the Apache Tez project about 200 have been created by non-committer community members. Another take on community building is how other community projects are interacting with Apache Tez. We have strong adoption from Apache Pig and Apache Hive. The Apache Pig effort has been an excellent example of cross company collaboration done under the Apache umbrella with members from Yahoo, LinkedIn, Netflix and Hortonworks. Apache Flink is a new incubator project that is experimenting with integrating with Tez and shows a positive outcome of the community outreach efforts. Adoption creates the greatest support for project sustainability because the adopters have interest in making sure that the project stays alive and continues to meet their needs. As an example of the interest shown by Apache Hive and Apache Pig in Tez there have been multiple public talks by members of those communities about how they have integrated with success with Apache Tez. 1) Bay Area Hadoop User Group 2014 (both Hive and Pig) 2) Hadoop Summit San Jose 2014 (both Hive and Pig) Over the last few months we have been receiving active contributions in quality and volume that enabled us to add a number of new committers. Since their contributions were fairly obvious because of their interactions with existing committers on the jiras, there wasn't much discussion on the vote thread itself. Finally, our 0.5 release is targeting community adoption and user adoption by considerably simplifying the API for the project because we have received feedback of that area being the specially challenging for newcomers. I hope these examples will help allay any doubts about the efforts and success at building out the community around Apache Tez. Thanks Bikas -----Original Message----- From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 1:46 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: d...@tez.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment] Thanks Ted, appreciate it and we will make sure to address your comments and sincerely appreciate the time you took to type your replies and do your research. It will no doubt help the community and thank you again. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 1:39 PM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> Cc: "d...@tez.incubator.apache.org" <d...@tez.incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment] >I will look as soon as possible. I am on a trip right now and am >occupied with day job stuff >12 hours a day. > >If you don't hear from me in a short time, move forward based in your >best judgment. I trust the group to consider my impressions and to >think about what merit they may (or may not) have. > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 23, 2014, at 23:27, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" >><chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >> >> >> I'll now wait to see what Ted thinks, but as far as I'm concerned you >> guys are moving in the direction I suspected (graduation) based on my >> admittedly limited searching of mail archives and basic metrics done >> the other day. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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