Hello everybody,
it is a pity. it seems to me, that's a kind lack of leadership and missed
communcation on this.
BR,
Giorgio

2017-06-26 5:31 GMT+02:00 Go Yamamoto <[email protected]>:

> Right.  This is an issue on openness.
>
> We are willing to follow the openness.
> For example, our code is open on the internet.
> https://github.com/CertiVox-i3-NTT
> However, we have difficulty in merging the code with other forks that are
> to be pushed to incubator-milagro.
> One of the reason is lack of the communication channels that decide the
> merge.
>
> Please advise us how we should communicate.
>
> NTT would like to contribute open source projects and have decided to
> contribute to Milagro project because we support the idea.  We also think
> the current situation is undesirable, and wish to change too.
>
> I think we need an open ticketing board like by Jira or a shared issue
> board in GitHub.
> All the problems in the project are shared and acknowledged there, and all
> the changes will be merged/rejected by ordinary pull-requests by git.
> It is the best way we know, however, I am always willing to learn.
>
> Go
>
> ________________________________________
> From: anthony shaw <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 6:40:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Retire Milagro
>
> Hi Go,
>
> I thought this project was dead as well, your comment "we prefer
> communicating using Slack and Hangout", probably highlights most of the
> issue. This is not about preference, it's about openness; if you need to be
> on the core team or part of NTT to be involved in the conversation, this is
> not an open-source project at all. It's "source open" as Scott Hanselman
> likes to say, your source code is on the internet, that's it.
>
> You have to have an open and active community, otherwise if/when NTT
> decides to pull funding from Milagro, the project dies.
>
> The ASF does not enforce use of SVN, actually, most projects are now on Git
> (and mirrored to GitHub). The Milagro project is untouched
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro
>
> Regards,
> Anthony Shaw
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Go Yamamoto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree we need to discuss.
> >
> > I think the critical problem is in communication, not necessarily in the
> > level of activities.
> >
> > I do not think Milagro is inactive.   We NTT have been trying to
> > contribute the code for more than a year, and still we have 10Ks lines of
> > code that wait for discussion on merge.
> >
> > The problem is in the communication styles that divides the project.
>  For
> > example, we prefer communicating using Slack and Hangout, not in mailing
> > lists.   As far as I understand, most of technical discussions are in
> those
> > channels, and the code is stored and merged in GitHub spaces.  As the
> > result the activities are not visible from the projects' official
> > channels.  That is the problem.
> >
> > I know one would say that is not an Apache project and the style is not
> an
> > Apache way.  I agree it makes sense.  However, we are not simply
> accustomed
> > to write codes communicating by mailing lists and using SVN.  Should we
> > learn to?  To be, or not to be, or to look for a balanced style.  That is
> > the point.
> >
> > To start the discussion, I believe we can agree we all hope this project
> > is fruitful and productive.
> >
> > I think Milagro still has a promising scope and good use cases in IoT,
> and
> > I would like to continue leading the NTT's engineering team to
> contribute.
> >
> > Go
> > ________________________________________
> > From: John D. Ament <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 3:25:15 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [DISCUSS] Retire Milagro
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I'd like to bring up the idea of retiring the Milagro podling.   You've
> > been incubating for about 18 months and from what I can tell there is no
> on
> > list activity nor commits happening.
> >
> > John
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