I like Joe's proposal. Why isn't it in the Incubator wiki yet? :) -- Brane
On 05.03.2013 20:43, Joachim Dreimann wrote: > I think we should be more direct in what our goals are, so here is my > suggestion for the report: > > We're hoping to graduate soon, potentially before the next report. While > growing our community further continues to be important, we have seen > more outside interest recently. This addresses the only barrier to > graduation raised after the December2012 report. > We have further prepared by completing the PODLINGNAMESEARCH. > > The project now has two online demo instances running of Apache Bloodhound, > one of which shows the current state of the trunk branch [ > http://bh-demo1.apache.org ] and providing a first implementation of the > new search functionality, responsive layout and multi-product architecture > that has been developed. Together these represent the main strands of what > Apache Bloodhound set out to achieve. Unfortunately, we do not yet have the > ability to make use of the repository browser, which was something that was > brought up in the previous report. > > We added two new committers to the project in January. We have also seen > more interest in the project from a number of channels including irc and > the dev mailing list which we are, as ever, hoping to convert into growth > of the developer community and continue to improve upon diversity. > > > On 5 March 2013 16:23, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/03/13 16:06, Gary Martin wrote: >> >>> On 4 March 2013 15:58, Branko Čibej <[email protected] <mailto: >>> [email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> On 04.03.2013 16:36, Gary Martin wrote: >>> > OK, I think we get the hint. >>> > >>> > If nobody has volunteered to write up the report before I do, I >>> should >>> > be able to get onto it tomorrow. >>> > >>> > The main things that spring to mind at the moment is that over the >>> > last 3 months we have completed the namesearch which, aside from our >>> > decision over whether we have achieved enough diversity, pretty much >>> > clears the way for graduation. >>> > >>> > We can also add the creation of demo servers with lots of help from >>> > Gavin to completed infrastructure requests but we are still >>> waiting on >>> > a means to effectively connect our issues.apache.org/bloodhound >>> >>> <http://issues.apache.org/**bloodhound<http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound>> >>> to our >>> >>> > area of subversion over NFS, or any other solution. This was >>> raised in >>> > the December2012 report and I am not aware of any significant >>> progress. >>> > >>> > Any more upbeat news to report will be good too. >>> >>> We've seen some outside interest in the project, at least on IRC; not >>> much, but it's a start. >>> >>> I think we may as well announce that there will be a community vote on >>> graduation readiness soon -- i.e., I think we can start it right now. >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, it would be good to get a decision from the community so that sounds >>> like a good plan to me. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Gary >>> >>> >> Hi, >> >> I've just thrown this together. I'll add this to the incubator report soon >> to use as a starting point unless anyone thinks that I have not been upbeat >> enough again! >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Community growth/diversification >> 2. >> 3. >> >> Since the last report, three months ago, Bloodhound has completed >> its PODLINGNAMESEARCH which aside from issues of >> diversity was the final item to consider prior to graduation. The >> Bloodhound community has been discussing the >> issueof graduation following positive comments following the >> Decemeber2012 report and the community vote has now >> begun. >> >> The project now has demos running of Apache Bloodhound, one of which >> shows the current state of the trunk branch >> andproviding a demonstration of the new search functionality that >> has been developed. Unfortunately, we do not yet >> haveability to make use of the repository browser, which was >> something that was brought up in the previous report. >> >> We added two new committers to the project in January. We have also >> seen more interest in the project from a number >> of channels including irc and the dev mailing list which weare, as >> ever, hoping to convert into growth of the >> developer community and continue to improve upon diversity. >> >> The questions that we are meant to answer (currently listed in our entry >> on the wiki page) are: >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to >> be aware of? >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> Cheers, >> Gary >> >> > -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
