On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:30 PM Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2017-05-21 09:46 (-0500), "John D. Ament" <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:45 PM Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > == Reliance on salaried Developers == > > > > > > The existing contributors to the Livy project have been made by > salaried > > > engineers from Cloudera, Microsoft and Hortonworks. Since there are > three > > > major organisations involved, the risk of reliance on a single group of > > > salaried developers is mitigated. The Livy user base is diverse, with > users > > > from across the globe, including users from academic settings. We aim > to > > > further diversify the Livy user and contributor base. > > > > > > > There's a disconnect between this paragraph and the initial committers > > list. Specifically, no one from Microsoft is represented (as best as I > can > > tell). > > Ah, this lack of clarity is my fault as an editor. One of the initial > committers was recently employed by Microsoft but is now in the > process of changing employers. Another person formally affiliated with > both the project and Microsoft has decided not to continue > participating. > > I could rephrase this to talk about the contributions made to date as > being from individuals then in the employ of three major companies. > Then call out the initial committer list as from two of those and one > unaffiliated. Would that read clearer? > > I think the explanation is enough, nothing to change. > > > Cloudera currently owns the domain name: http://livy.io/ which will be > > > transferred to the ASF and redirected to the official page during > > > incubation. > > > > > > > > > > I'm assuming that the incoming project is aware that we expect the main > dev > > landing page to be livy.incubator.apache.org . We will want to track > this > > as a project specific item. > > > Yep, once all the docs are moved over to ASF infrastructure we can > just have the current domain act as a redirect. Should I call this out > in the proposal? > > It would be good to list out the goal of moving to livy.i.a.o but not needed. > > > > == Git Repository == > > > > > > git://git.apache.org/livy > > > > > > > Just to confirm - it'll be incubator-livy, not just livy. > > right right. I'll correct this when making the other edits. > > > > > == Issue Tracking == > > > > > > We would like to import our current JIRA project into the ASF JIRA, > such > > > that our historical commit message and code comments continue to > reference > > > the appropriate bug numbers. > > > > > > > I would recommend reaching out to infra to see if the import is possible > > before voting on the project. Otherwise you'll need to list out an la > > Sure I can reach out. I've seen this done a few times, so I consider > it low risk. The end of your line appears to have been lost, what's > the "Otherwise..." ? > > Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there either. I checked my mail client, E_NOCLUE. "list out an alternative" is what I was typing. > > > = Sponsors = > > > == Champion == > > > > > > * Sean Busbey (bus...@apache.org) > > > > > > == Nominated Mentors == > > > > > > * Bikas Saha (bi...@apache.org) > > > * Brock Noland (br...@phdata.io) > > > > > > A couple of points: > > > > - Sean, while the champion and mentor roles are separate, we do hope that > > all champions will continue on as a mentor. If this is your intention > > please add yourself. > > After having to withdraw from mentoring a couple of podlings at the > end of last year I am conservative about what my volunteer time looks > like right now. I'm certain I can spare the time to help the Livy > community get introduced to the incubator. I'm not certain beyond > that, so I am not listed as a formal mentor. > > > - All mentors must be on the IPMC. Foundation membership isn't a > > requirement, however most people use membership to get access to the > IPMC. > > If Bikas wants to be a mentor, he'll need to join the IPMC otherwise > you'll > > need to find 2 mentors. > > I was pretty sure Bikas had already done this step. I'll chase this > down and find the disconnect. > > > - Do the proposed mentors have a relationship to the incoming project, > e.g. > > do they care if it succeeds from a corporate interest standpoint? > > I'll let the mentors answer for themselves here, as I won't presume to > know their specific motivations for volunteering. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
