On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Swapnil Bawaskar <sbawas...@pivotal.io> wrote: > I found the following"Shepherd/Mentor notes" for our previous report > <https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/January2016>: > > For the next report: for me as a mentor (and perhaps for others on IPMC) > it is not very insightful to see the number of pull requests or JIRAs > opened. It isn't what "project development" constitutes in my mind. I > would like to see more info about how project is getting into Apache > Way, > what important discussions are held, what decisions are made through > community consensus, etc.
That's a good point, but please don't read it as an excuse to drop that first part of the valuable statistics. > Given the above, I was thinking about appending the following to the report: > > - We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated that > responsibility for the second release > - Had a discussion about how to number the releases > - Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second > release candidate was voted as the final release > - The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and learned > the correct way of nominating new committers. > - JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list. > - Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing list. > - Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing list. The above looks very reasonable to me! Also, any insights from community development as a follow up to Geode Summit would be super useful to include in the report. Thanks, Roman.
