Re: Question about other's experience with the benefits of graduation from the incubator

Hi, Carin, This is Jun and I have worked on Apache Cassandra and Kafka. To me, the benefits of ASF and/or becoming a topic level project are the following. 1. ASF carries a strong brand name. Many enterprises are much more comfortable with adopting software that's from a top-level ASF project tha

Re: Contributing an updated slide deck

Cool. Some comments. Side 5 PMC Chairs are Vice Presidents of the project and officers of the Foundation. Slide 8 In my opinion, Vendor Neutrality is either a 4th Pillar, the Foundation, or an adjunct to the “How It Works”. I’m not sure which metaphor is best, but the topic should be covered.

Re: Contributing an updated slide deck

michaelpav...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 12:20 PM Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy Hello everyone, > > I recently shared a slide deck with an introduction to "The Apache Way" in > this mailing list. I've got some very valuable feedback from community > members, and I have incorporated some into the sl

Contributing an updated slide deck

Hello everyone, I recently shared a slide deck with an introduction to "The Apache Way" in this mailing list. I've got some very valuable feedback from community members, and I have incorporated some into the slides. The updated deck is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/183nXPAxpJymQBO

Re: Proposed process for recognizing *Non-Technical* Contributions

Op ma 21 jan. 2019 om 20:25 schreef Joan Touzet : > "Mark Thomas" wrote: > > On 21/01/2019 17:59, Roy Lenferink wrote: > > > CNCF is using a bot on their GitHub repositories which adds a label > > > to > > > every pull request whether the contributor has a cla on file > > > [1][2]. > > > More inf

Re: Question about other's experience with the benefits of graduation from the incubator

Thanks for your feedback. For context, we are *very* interested in graduating. As one of our steps forward to our goal, we are investigating this question as a way of understanding as a group where we are headed and why. The answers and feedback help us our enrich and solidify our understanding.

Re: Proposed process for recognizing *Non-Technical* Contributions

"Mark Thomas" wrote: > On 21/01/2019 17:59, Roy Lenferink wrote: > > CNCF is using a bot on their GitHub repositories which adds a label > > to > > every pull request whether the contributor has a cla on file > > [1][2]. > > More info on this here [3] > > The cla label is checked before the PR can

Re: Proposed process for recognizing *Non-Technical* Contributions

On 21/01/2019 17:59, Roy Lenferink wrote: > I think it is an excellent idea to suggest submitting an ICLA to > contributors when they submit a contribution. Generally, adding barriers to participation reduces contributions rather than increases them. If folks want to submit an CLA then of course

Re: Proposed process for recognizing *Non-Technical* Contributions

I think it is an excellent idea to suggest submitting an ICLA to contributors when they submit a contribution. CNCF is using a bot on their GitHub repositories which adds a label to every pull request whether the contributor has a cla on file [1][2]. More info on this here [3] The cla label is chec

Re: Question about other's experience with the benefits of graduation from the incubator

Hi, On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM Fabian Hueske wrote: >... Graduation is an important step for every ASF project that all incubating > projects should be working towards Absolutely, graduation is a *requirement* for podlings which cannot be considered optional. If a podling is unsure whe

Re: Question about other's experience with the benefits of graduation from the incubator

Hi Carin, Thanks for the question. Graduation is an important step for every ASF project that all incubating projects should be working towards. As others have said, it shows that the community is healthy, growing and following the Apache Way (public discussions, Apache-compliant releases, voting