Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for Mar 2013 ([ppmc])

[Gary Martin]

Turns out that Joe was lacking the permissions after all so I have 
sorted it out now. I believe there is still be time to put in any 
updates if anyone has anything else for us to mention.

Cheers,
    Gary

On 06/03/13 14:29, Gary Martin wrote:
Yes, I like it too. I was going to let Joe put it in as I think he has 
the relevant permissions.

Cheers,
    Gary

On 06/03/13 14:15, Branko Čibej wrote:
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 <gary.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote:

On 04/03/13 16:06, Gary Martin wrote:

On 4 March 2013 15:58, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com <mailto:
br...@wandisco.com>> 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