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Regards Antoine. Le 10/10/2019 à 22:51, Jacques Nadeau a écrit : > Antoine, is my synopsis fair? > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 12:53 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 2:12 PM Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Proposed report update below. LMK your thoughts. >>> >>> ## Description: >>> The mission of Apache Arrow is the creation and maintenance of software >>> related to columnar in-memory processing and data interchange >>> >>> ## Issues: >>> >>> * We are struggling with Continuous Integration scalability as the >> project >>> has >>> definitely outgrown what Travis CI and Appveyor can do for us. Some >>> contributors have shown reluctance to submit patches they aren't sure >>> about >>> because they don't want to pile on the build queue. We are exploring >>> alternative solutions such as Buildbot, Buildkite, and GitHub Actions >> to >>> provide a path to migrate away from Travis CI / Appveyor. In our >> request >>> to >>> Infrastructure INFRA-19217, some of us were alarmed to find that an >> CI/CD >>> service like Buildkite may not be able to be connected to the @apache >>> GitHub >>> account on account of requiring admin access to repository webhooks, >> but >>> no >>> ability to modify source code. There are workarounds (building custom >>> OAuth >>> bots) that could enable us to use Buildkite, but it would require extra >>> development and result in a less refined experience for community >>> members. >>> >>> >>> >>> ## Membership Data: >>> * Apache Arrow was founded 2016-01-19 (4 years ago) >>> * There are currently 48 committers and 28 PMC members in this project. >>> * The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. >>> >>> Community changes, past quarter: >>> - Micah Kornfield was added to the PMC on 2019-08-21 >>> - Sebastien Binet was added to the PMC on 2019-08-21 >>> - Ben Kietzman was added as committer on 2019-09-07 >>> - David Li was added as committer on 2019-08-30 >>> - Kenta Murata was added as committer on 2019-09-05 >>> - Neal Richardson was added as committer on 2019-09-05 >>> - Praveen Kumar was added as committer on 2019-07-14 >>> >>> ## Project Activity: >>> >>> * The project has just made a 0.15.0 release. >>> * We are discussing ways to make the Arrow libraries as accessible as >>> possible >>> to downstream projects for minimal use cases while allowing the >>> development >>> of more comprehensive "standard libraries" with larger dependency >> stacks >>> in >>> the project >>> * We plan to make a 1.0.0 release as our next major release, at which >> time >>> we >>> will declare that the Arrow binary protocol is stable with forward and >>> backward compatibility guarantees >>> >>> ## Community Health: >>> >>> * The community is continuing to grow at a great rate. We see good >> adoption >>> among many other projects and fast growth of key metrics. >>> * Many contributors are struggling with the slowness of pre-commit CI. >>> Arrow >>> has a large number of different platforms and components and a complex >>> build >>> matrix. As new commits come in, they frequently take a long time to >>> complete. The community is trying several ways to solve this. There is >>> bubbling frustration in the community around the GitHub repo rules for >>> using >>> third party services. This is especially challenging when there are >> free >>> solutions to relieve the community pressure but the community is unable >>> to >>> access these resources. This frustration is greatest among people who >>> work >>> on many non-asf OSS projects which don't have such restrictive rules >>> around GitHub. Some examples of ways the community has tried to >> resolve >>> these have included: >>> * Try to use CircleCI, rejected in INFRA-15964 >>> * Try to use Azure Pipelines, rejected in INFRA-17030 >>> * Try to resolves Issues with Travis CI capacity: INFRA-18533 & >>> https://s.apache.org/ci-capacity (no resolution beyond "find >>> donations") >>> * The creation of new infrastructure design (in progress but a huge >>> amount of >>> thankless work) >>> * While the community has seen great growth in contribution (more than >> 300 >>> unique contributors at this point), the vast majority are casual >>> contributors. The daily active committers (the workhorses of the >> project >>> that bear the load committing the constant PRs, more than 5000 closed >> at >>> this point) have been growing slower than adoption. This is despite the >>> fact >>> that the community has been very aggressive at being inclusive of new >>> committers (with likelihood to have more than 50 in the next week). The >>> community is still continuing to try to brainstorm ways to improve >> this. >>> >> >
