Re: Beam's recent community development work

2018-07-02 Thread Matei Zaharia
I think telling people that they’re being considered as committers early on is a good idea, but AFAIK we’ve always had individual committers do that with contributors who were doing great work in various areas. We don’t have a centralized process for it though — it’s up to whoever wants to work

Re: Beam's recent community development work

2018-07-02 Thread Reynold Xin
That's fair, and it's great to find high quality contributors. But I also feel the two projects have very different background and maturity phase. There are 1300+ contributors to Spark, and only 300 to Beam, with the vast majority of contributions coming from a single company for Beam (based on my

Re: Beam's recent community development work

2018-07-02 Thread Holden Karau
As someone who floats a bit between both projects (as a contributor) I'd love to see us adopt some of these techniques to be pro-active about growing our committer-ship (I think perhaps we could do this by also moving some of the newer committers into the PMC faster so there are more eyes out looki