Thanks for the summary Francis and +1 for Stamatis as the next PMC chair :)
-- Michael Mior mm...@apache.org Le mer. 23 oct. 2019 à 02:36, Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > It's been a great year so far. Thanks for your great work Francis, you did > an excellent job! > > I also like a lot the way that the mailing list works and the fact that we > are very active. Apart from helping each other it also centralizes a lot of > information, where people may find an answer to their problem quite easily. > When I first started to learn about Calcite, the list and the archives were > indispensable. > > It is also very positive that we don't encounter very often regressions > (and most of those encountered were minor), which shows that the quality > standards of the project are really high and reviewers are really paying > attention on what is going in. I believe a lot in the motto of quality over > quantity. > > Although we are managing PRs a bit better than the previous years, we have > to improve more. I had in my mind that if people assigned to themselves the > review of the JIRA/PR the feeling of responsibility would make things > advance faster. I tried applying this to myself but it didn't really work > much better since there is certainly a lack of time. Other than lack of > time sometimes it is our diligence that makes PRs wait a long time till > they get merged. Given that we have a version control system (and at any > time we can go back in time) we should be more confident about committing > things faster. > > Calcite is a great project that could be used in many different ways by > many people. Unfortunately, I think we are losing many users simply because > they are not aware that such a project exists. At least in Europe, academic > people and as a result university students, graduates, and future engineers > do not know that Calcite exists. I gave a talk last year in a university in > France, and nobody in the audience had ever heard of Calcite before. I > think such introductory talks in universities should be done more often. > The talks about Calcite in conferences is of course a great way to spread > the word; thanks to everybody who got involved in them and keep it up. > > Thanks a lot for the nomination for PMC chair! I will be honoured and very > happy to serve if I am elected. > > Best, > Stamatis > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:40 AM Juan Pan <panj...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Actually i think it's time to have my say after receiving the email > > titiled `Have your say!` from Julian Hyde. > > > > > > As a person new this project, i am appreciated community's help for my > > question ml, and glad to see its communnity so active and harmonious. Other > > than that, it also gives me some new ideas for our incubator project. As of > > now, i am exploring Calcite, so if possible, i want to do some > > contributions to it as well. > > > > > > Hope Apache Calcite better and better in future. > > > > > > Best wishes, > > Trista > > > > > > > > > > Juan Pan > > > > > > panj...@apache.org > > Juan Pan(Trista), Apache ShardingSphere > > > > > > On 10/23/2019 11:21，Chunwei Lei<chunwei.l...@gmail.com> wrote： > > Thank you for your great work, Francis! > > > > In the past year, I deeply feel that Calcite community is becoming more and > > more active, which means that more and > > more companies start to use Apache Calcite. This is very exciting and > > encouraging. > > > > Thanks to active contributions and committers, pull requests could be > > reviewed and merged in a short time currently > > which really benefits a lot. > > > > I also feel that there are quite a few tough legacy issues left. I hope we > > can spend more time discussing and finding out > > a solution in the future. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Best, > > Chunwei > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:38 AM Danny Chan <yuzhao....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the state summarize Francis Chuang ! And thanks for the awesome > > work for keeping Calcite in good shape ! > > > > From my perspective, I really feel that Calcite is becoming more and more > > popular and there are many new groups trying to use this great project, as > > a reviewer, I saw many contributions from all kinds of people. And I feel > > very proud of that ! > > > > For the last year, I did many work to let Apache Flink and Calcite to have > > better integration, and I believe there would be more and more people to > > make contributions and make Calcite more pluggable and more suitable for > > production environments ! > > > > I also very enjoy the absolute harmony of the community, we are fire > > interesting discussions on the mailing list and we did have some valuable > > conclusion(like the Join expression rework, the trait sets propagation, the > > metadata etc.) And I felt very happy and respected to work with you guys in > > the community. Let’s keep the good communications and output more valuable > > design ! > > > > Thanks again to everyone ! > > > > Best, > > Danny Chan > > 在 2019年10月22日 +0800 AM10:22，Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org>，写道： > > I agree that we’ve made good progress on last year’s big problem, pull > > requests languishing for too long. The situation has been better, because a > > few people are putting in considerable effort reviewing. We still have some > > ways to go, so let’s keep up the good work. > > > > One of the successes of the year was to arrange release managers for > > several releases in advance. Each of the individuals stepped up and did a > > great job, and the release process was as smooth as it could possibly be > > for a project of this size. Because the work was shared, I think no > > individual felt that they were taking on an undue burden. > > > > I also want to mention the fact that we now have an awesome logo. Thank > > you for pushing that change through! > > > > +1 for Stamatis as candidate for the next PMC chair. I was going to > > propose him also. > > > > I am proud that we have appointed a new person as PMC chair every year. > > Each chair has brought a new perspective and energy to the role, and has > > advanced the community. Francis is no exception, and he has kept Calcite in > > good shape. Thank you, Francis! > > > > We were discussing in another thread about whether we should cleave > > Avatica into a more separate sub-project or top-level project. But I do > > note that Francis came from the Avatica side of the project (Avatica Go, in > > fact) and yet effortlessly and effectively spoke for the whole Calcite > > project. So, it gives me hope that there is still cohesion between the > > Calcite and Avatica communities. > > > > Julian > > > > > > On Oct 20, 2019, at 6:50 PM, Danny Chan <yuzhao....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Great work Francis! I’m + 1 for Stamatis being the PMC chair ~ > > > > Best, > > Danny Chan > > 在 2019年10月21日 +0800 AM6:47，dev@calcite.apache.org，写道： > > > > Francis > > > > > >
