Thanks a lot for your comments, will address them and post a new draft. On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Flavio Junqueira < fpjunque...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> Thanks, Jia. It would be good to have concrete metrics where possible. See > my comments below: > > > On 30 Oct 2016, at 10:53, Jia Zhai <zhaiji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks a lot for your suggestions Flavio. > > And Guys, Here is a draft. Please help comments on it. > > Regards. > > -Jia > > > > ===================================== > > > > DistributedLog > > > > DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers > > > > durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a > fundamental > > > > building block for building reliable distributed systems. > > > > DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24. > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Continue to grow the community, especially people from outside > > Twitter. > > [Ask the PMC for helping check the number of people subscribed to dev@ > mail > > list] > > I think you're referring to the project PMC checking the subscription > list. I checked and we have 35 people subscribed. A lot of people have > gmail and apache.org <http://apache.org/> addresses so it is hard to tell > affiliation. One typical sign of community diversity is to have active > committers from multiple organizations, which is just a natural extension > of a diverse community. As folks contribute to the project, I'd expect the > PPMC to offer committership to the contributors. > > Please do not refer to Twitter specifically, just say that we want to > increase diversity. > > > 2. Improve documentation. > > Project documentation is important, but from a community perspective, it > is more important to have all processes documented well: how to contribute, > how to merge, notes for first time committers, how to cut a release, check > licenses. We need to make sure all this is in place once we suggest > graduation. > > > > 3. First Apache release > > When is the first release due? it would be good for this community to > release sooner rather later. I'd expect multiple releases upon graduation. > I think I'd just say "Release successfully". > > > > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware > > > > of? > > > > None > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Increase in contributions from community. > > > > How do we measure this? Here are a few suggestions: > > - Number of messages to the list > - Number of jiras created/resolved > - Number of individual contributors > > > 2. Lots of engagement on documentation. > > > > What are you using to determine this? Mailing list discussion or jira? > > There are other interesting threads going on too, like transactions and > event sourcing. > > > 3. Improved responsiveness of committers to community members > > > > I'd phrase this differently. I'd say something like: > > Increased traffic on the mailing list, in particular, due to committers > engaging more actively with contributors. > > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > 1. Documentation has improved for project build and project deployment. > > Added more information on community page. > > > > Please try to be a bit more specific. > > > 2. Involved more discussion of new ideas and bring in new features. > Include > > major discussions like 'transaction support', 'batch commit' .etc. > > Ok, I see you talked about other threads here. > > > > > 3. First release and repackaging of the project under apache namespace > are > > > > being discussed, such as: > > > > - Pull requests for repackaging. > > > > - Twitter folks are working on porting twitter's bk version back to > > community > > It is a bit unclear why this is important, and I'd again avoid referring > to a specific company if possible. > > If there is a major change happening and the community is all involved, > then I'd mention it, but as stated it sounds like this is relevant to the > BookKeeper community, although it affects this community because of the > dependency. > > > > > - Expect to cut a release on Nov. > > We should mention this above when we refer to the first release. I'd also > be interested in knowing why the delay, what is holding it, and who is the > release manager. We don't necessarily need to add it to the report, > although more detail isn't bad. > > -Flavio > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Flavio Junqueira <f...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Jia, > >> > >> I'd suggest that you put a draft together and share on the list so that > we > >> can comment before posting on the wiki. > >> > >> -Flavio > >> > >>> On 27 Oct 2016, at 16:44, Jia Zhai <zhaiji...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Guys, > >>> If there is an opportunity, I would like to have a try for this month. > :) > >>> > >>> Thanks a lot. > >>> -Jia > >>> > >>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:01 AM, <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >> > >
