Hi Team, I looked at:
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kudu-dev And over the last 4 months and Kudu’s inception, we have had well over 2k+ emails, and looking back I found 4 actual threads during that time (and one of which was a release VOTE thread) that wasn’t automatically generated by Gerrit. Mar 2016 438 Feb 2016 1003 Jan 2016 1143 Dec 2015 12 If we are going to become an ASF top level project, the project discussion has to happen on the mailing list. We had similar issues in Spark and I realize that lots of project work is assisted by tools and other technologies, but at the ASF, “if it didn’t happen on the mailing list, it didn’t happen.” More-over it’s hard to parse signal from noise in all these automated messages. Frankly I don’t really know if anything good is going on - I know things are going on, and I assume they are good, but it’s extremely hard to verify that. I have a possible suggestions: * Create a [email protected] and send all automated traffic there. *-issues is one option; we could make another name for it. That will help to separate the signal from the noise in terms of dev/architectural/etc. discussions from code reviews and automated commit messages. One thing you may say is that dev/architectural discussions are happening but they are in Gerrit. I would then say it’s extremely difficult to separate the signal from the noise here, and as such, could be contributing towards making it difficult for others to join the project, something that we identified as an issue in our Incubator report. Thoughts? Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
