Excuse the long rambling rant. If anyone made it to an "apache way" session at ApacheCon, you hopefully have a good insight into what I'm trying to say.
We've been a long time getting started. But now we have repos at apache, and the effort that went into ApacheCon is done - and will hopefully help attract interest and develop the community in due course. For that to happen, there needs to be a community to develop, and it needs to be visible and open to anyone who takes an interest. People need to be able to come to our project and see activity. Most importantly, an active list where project work takes place and where suggestions, questions, and general thoughts can be posted and expect consideration. Active Jira and repos complement that. There's still a lot of activity happening in private and company email, and chat (slack). And no doubt a lot in company teams and offices, to which I am not party. While - obviously - not all discussion belongs in email, much of it does: that's all part of giving the project a public profile that people can get a grip on and approach. And much of that email belongs right here on this list: as a rule of thumb, anything that's "Milagro" belongs here. Matters that are company-private should generally be clearly distinguishable from Milagro. Can we start to think of Apache as the natural home for day-to-day project work? Make the list, the Jira, and the repos the natural focus of all Milagro development? Make this a rich resource for developers who saw Brian at ApacheCon, or who read about us anywhere. To view and contribute to development activity, or to take the project in new directions. -- Nick Kew
