Anybody else? On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Yaniv Rodenski <ya...@shinto.io> wrote:
> Thanks Davor, > > Points taken, we will learn and improve on those. > > Just one clearification, I was not blaming the mentor I myself was more > focused on working with Guy on automating the build than following up. > Rereading my own response I can see that was unclear. > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 11:02 am, Davor Bonaci <da...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Thanks for a great response. Some comments inline. > > > > * In the last month we have been working on automating the release > process > > > via Travis, we are still trying to enable Travis build for the > Amaterasu > > > repo, which is taking ridiculously long. We need one of the mentors to > > just > > > enable it via their account (I've already talked a couple of times to > one > > > of the mentors about it). > > > > > > > Searching for 'travis' in the mailing list archives doesn't yield any > > discussion threads. > > > > Mentors don't have permission to do this themselves. Infra JIRA is the > way > > to do it, but I couldn't find such JIRA ticket filed. > > > > Emailing one mentor directly (or any other community member) isn't a way > to > > build the community. Things need to be discussed in public whenever > > possible. > > > > Given the above, blaming a mentor (whomever you may be referring to) > > doesn't make sense. > > > > * We are ready to release version 0.2.0-incubating, the reason it took > us a > > > month to initiate the process is the above automated build, which I > > > suggested in prior discussion and had no rejections. We will complete > > this > > > once build is enabled. > > > > > > > The release itself is a great milestone, but not the purpose to itself. > > > > > > > * as for community growth, we are working with two organizations on > > running > > > POCs (which will hopefully grow the user base) one of them is due to > > start > > > very soon. I don't want to name them (first of all it's too early, and > > also > > > it is for them to decide if they want to share) but a representative > from > > > at least one of those organisations is on the list and is welcomed to > > share > > > :) > > > > > > > Great! > > > > > > > * This year I've seen contributions from 4 contributors (not much more > > than > > > 3, I know) but one of them is new (Guy Peleg) and AFAIK additional > > > longer-term work is done by one more contributor on his local fork > (Nadav > > > Har-Tzvi) > > > > > > > I think this is the crux of the problem. Why is longer-term work going on > > in a local fork? > > > > > > > * We should be presenting more, and growing the community more which is > > > hard to do starting out as a tiny community. Any advice given there > would > > > be appreciated. > > > > > > > The first thing has to be do the basics well: on-list communication, open > > discussions, no side channels, etc. > > > -- > Yaniv Rodenski > > +61 477 778 405 > ya...@shinto.io >
