Thanks for the draft report. It looks good, and I'll sign it when it's final.
This paragraph was interesting and, I thought, very accurate: > Crail went through a phase of limited visible activities on > the code base. It is critical the Crail developers > community resumes to be more active to keep the project > making decent progress. Using Crail as an ephemeral data > store for serverless computing emerges as a very suitable > use case. Pushing this forward, aiming at inclusion > in a next release is of common interest among the > committers. Does anyone have any thoughts about how we can achieve these goals? I wondered how we could promote "Crail as an ephemeral data store for serverless computing". A blog post? Or have you considered a "Powered by Crail" page highlighting companies/projects that are using it? We have such a page in Calcite [1] and it's very popular - especially the graphic showing logos. Julian [1] On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 3:48 PM Felix Cheung <felixcheun...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks - The wiki is now using the same credentials as your Apache account - > have you tried that? > > > ________________________________ > From: bernard metzler <bmetz...@gmx.ch> > Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:04:00 AM > To: dev@crail.apache.org <dev@crail.apache.org> > Subject: Crail draft podling report June 2020 > > Please find below a draft podling report for Crail, > subject to discussion, suggestions, changes, etc. > > Initially I wanted to directly put that in at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/June2020 > > to edit online with you. Unfortunately I lost my > Confluence password for login, and any attempt to reset > it ends up with "An internal error occurred when trying > to change your password." In the interest of time, and > assuming others on the list still have access, I'd ask > one of you to put it in later today if we agreed on the > content. > > Thanks, > Bernard. > > > Here is what I have in mind as a report so far: > > ----------- > Crail > > Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in > distributed data processing jobs at very high speed. > > Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01. > - Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: > > 1. Grow developers community > 2. Grow Crail use base > 3. More steady release cycle > > - Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? > > no. > > - How has the community developed since the last report? > > We see increasing traffic on the dev mailing list from > Crail users. A recent proposal from Adrian to add elastic > scaling got positive feedback from other committers. > > - How has the project developed since the last report? > > Crail went through a phase of limited visible activities on > the code base. It is critical the Crail developers > community resumes to be more active to keep the project > making decent progress. Using Crail as an ephemeral data > store for serverless computing emerges as a very suitable > use case. Pushing this forward, aiming at inclusion > in a next release is of common interest among the > committers. > > - How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > (Please feel free to add your own commentary.) > > Initial setup > Working towards first release > x Community building > Nearing graduation > Other: > > - Date of last release: > > 2020-01-14 > > - When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > December 4th, 2018 > > - Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? > > yes.
