Great report Ali. I added it to the wiki. Please let me know your wiki name, and I will give you karma to edit it yourself (offer is open for anybody else here too)
@Upayavira: i have signed it, even when not being a mentor. If you see this mail in time, you can remove my signature and add yours. Cheers Christian On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Ali Lown <a...@lown.me.uk> wrote: > If someone else could edit the wiki (I can't, I haven't got edit > access to the wiki), then here is a report until Michael/anybody else > edits/replaces it. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make a release (stalled). > The licensing issues have been resolved, and build scripts have been > put into the repository. Documentation (see 2) is missing, after which > point we can finalize a commit suitable for release. > 2. Improve documentation. > This is currently scattered between the old WaveProtocol site, the > mailing list, and elsewhere. It needs to be pruned (of no-longer > relevant documentation), structured and put on the wiki. > 3. Increase community size. > We are lacking any contributors who are able to make/support large > code changes at the moment. A release should help increase wider > knowledge of the project, to hopefully bring in more development > support. > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware > of? > None at this time. (Though see Shepard's notes). > > How has the community developed since the last report? > The mailing list traffic continues to consist of new people asking > questions about setting-up/running a WIAB server. (Which could be > resolved by #2). Other than that, mostly stagnation. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > Some progress towards a release (licensing) has been made. > Internationalization support has been added. > > Ali > > On 15 March 2013 16:13, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Please note: Matt (who is doing the report this period) has asked Wave >> to submit it before Friday evening - which is pretty close to now. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Michael MacFadden >> <michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I will write the report this weekend. >>> >>> On 3/15/13 7:38 AM, "Yuri Z" <vega...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Anyway, is there anyone who wants to write the report? >>>> >>>> >>>>On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado >>>><v...@ourproject.org >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> El 15/03/13 12:42, Upayavira escribió: >>>>> > The most important thing that needs to happen is a release. I think >>>>>this >>>>> > really needs to happen before the next board report (i.e. three months >>>>> > time). However, it would be much better for it to happen sooner, as it >>>>> > would be useful to see if a release actually draws in more interest. >>>>>And >>>>> > that's something the project needs. >>>>> >>>>> It's nice to know these priorities. I'm new in the Apache community and >>>>> as committer and this process is not very clear to me. >>>>> >>>>> > To follow this path, we need to see some change, and some growth. >>>>>Ideas >>>>> > beyond making a release (which needs to happen anyway) are welcome. >>>>> >>>>> As I said before, I can help creating a debian package that I think can >>>>> spread also the Wave use. I did the kune package [1], and it can be very >>>>> similar (even more simple). Yuri was interested on this issue also. My >>>>> problem with the debian package is that I can (and I know how to) create >>>>> an onejar package (with all the dependencies, that is, the >>>>> waveinabox-server.jar) but I don't know if this follow the Apache >>>>> guidelines. >>>>> >>>>> Other problem we have is documentation. IMHO, we'll be great to have >>>>> some waves in some server (eating your own dog food) with robots and >>>>> gadgets howtos, and similar stuff. >>>>> >>>>> Also, we'll help with Wave translation. We have translated kune in 16 >>>>> languages thanks to a web translator, and I'll add the Wave strings so >>>>> our translators group can translate Wave also easily (without be a >>>>> developer). >>>>> >>>>> BR, >>>>> -- >>>>> Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado >>>>> >>>>> http://comunes.org >>>>> http://ourproject.org >>>>> http://homes.ourproject.org/~vjrj/blog (@vjrj) >>>>> >>>>> "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. >>>>> Dance like nobody's watching." [Satchel Paige] >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://gitorious.org/kune/trunk/trees/master/debian >>>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> https://www.timeandbill.de -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
