On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Committer Independence: > - The PPMC membership includes people from a variety of companies > with independent influence. The PPMC membership is employed by at > least 11 different organizations. This includes Hortonworks, > Streamsets, Redlink, Basis Tech, Booze Allen Hamilton, Salesforce, > Onyara, Requitest, Twitter, iJET, US Gov. If you look at the > contributor base beyond the PPMC the independence is even more > encouraging. Given nifi's origins that independence has been > established outside the defense space so quickly is fantastic. > > In short: The community is growing and we continue to incrementally > improve and do the things which help community growth occur. > > What do these numbers look like when weighted by which companies are contributing code? It's fine to say that you have representation from X companies, but if all the work is really done by a single organization then I don't think we can count it as committer independence. I've seen in the past that mentors tend to lose interest after graduation as they move on to newer podlings that need their attention when they are not also contributors. Maybe this deserves its own thread? > Thanks > Joe > > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Sergio > >> > >> Am really happy you think so. Was just waiting to get through the > release > >> before having that discussion. > >> > >> Do others feel that we are at the point to start that as well? > >> > >> > > Can we get a current accounting for how the community has grown thus far > in > > incubation? > > > > I think we have the release cadence bit mostly down. > > > > > > -- > > Sean > Mike
