+1 from me (non-binding).

- KN

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Jia Zhai <zhaiji...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks so much for your suggestions. Here is a new draft:
>
> ===========
> 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, and increase diversity of community.
> 2.Improve documentation, including documentation of project and processes.
> 3.Successful releases.
>
> 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.
>    - 8 created and 4 resolved issues in community JIRA in October.
> 2. Lots of engagement on documentation.
>    - Enhance existing documents,
>    - Setup guides for developers and committers.
> 3. Increased traffic on the mailing list, in particular, due to committers
> engaging more actively with contributors.
>    - we have 35 people subscribed mail list.
>    - 125 messages to distributedlog mail list in October.
>
> 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.
>  New added pages:
>   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Developer+Guide
>   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Committer+Guide
> 2. Involved more discussion of new ideas and bring in new features. Include
> major discussions like 'transaction support', 'batch commit', "EventStore"
> . etc.
> 3. First release expected on November, and repackaging of the project under
> apache namespace are being discussed.
> - Pull requests for repackaging.
> - The major blocker is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DL-2. We were
> expecting to let DL depends on an official bk version.
>
> ================
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Sijie Guo <si...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Thank you Jia and Flavio. Comments inline.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Jia Zhai <zhaiji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Sijie,
> > > Would you please help address some of Flavio's comments first, You may
> > have
> > > more information for story behind the result. I would like to handle
> this
> > > after your comments.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > > -Jia
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Jia Zhai <zhaiji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed. We should 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.
> > >
> >
> > Yup. We have setup a guide for developers and committers:
> >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Developer+Guide
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Committer+Guide
> >
> > They are linked under the community tab in
> > http://distributedlog.incubator.apache.org/
> >
> >
> > > 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".
> > >
> >
> > Or "Multiple successful releases"
> >
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > 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
> > >
> >
> > Jia,
> >
> > I think you can collect
> >
> > - number of messages by checking
> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-distributedlog-dev/
> > - number of jiras by filtering jira queue
> > - number of individual contributors : probably by looking at the number
> of
> > contributors at github?
> >
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> > 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.
> > >
> >
> > I think pull requests can be used for counting this.
> >
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Currently distributedlog relies on some major changes made in twitter's
> > bookkeeper branch, such as long poll read support, parallel recovery,
> delay
> > ensemble change and such. we are working on merging those changes back.
> >
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > - 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.
> > >
> >
> > The major blocker is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DL-2. We were
> > expecting to let DL depends on an official bk version rather than a
> version
> > from twitter's branch.
> >
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> -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:
> > > >> >>>
> > > >> >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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