This looks good- thanks Frank. Improving/creating docs is always hard. It might be advisable to find someone who can work on this and give them committer rights (I'm seeing one hasn't been added since Feb, not horrible, but we want to keep growing the community). Improved docs will lead to more user adoption, which will create more committer incentives and a pool of people to draw from. Sort of a chicken and egg problem.
Has there been any advocacy for the project? (e.g. are there any talks coming up at Apache Con to get people interested? If not maybe a lightning talk? Also blog posts). Advocacy can kick start the previously mentioned feedback loop. I'm seeing that we're pushing for v1.0 - i know ASF wide that is the thing everyone is pushing for, however it's probably OK to do a v0.x release first just to get the ball moving (in fact probably should have a 0.x release first to check for bugs before pushing 1.0, just my two cents). This is looking good and I'm signing off, those are my comments. On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:07 AM Frank Greguska <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Please review the Podling report for SDAP below: > > > SDAP > > SDAP is an integrated data analytic framework for Big Science problems. > > SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Make official SDAP (Incubating) Release > 2. Improve/create user guide documentation > 3. Improve committer participation > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > No. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > We are continuing to attract new committers. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > SDAP is still working towards its first release. Work towards a repeatable > build pipeline has been started. > > New functionality has been added to the Distributed Oceanographic Matchup > Service (DOMS) and Extensible Data Gateway Environment (EDGE) components > that allow for filtering in situ measurements by a standardized quality > flag. > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > There are several deployments of SDAP actively being used and interest is > high. However, active participation from project members is low. A push is > needed to cross the t's and dot the i's in regards to meeting the > requirements Apache has for releasing software so that we can claim a 1.0 > version of SDAP. > > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > [X] Initial setup > [X] Working towards first release > [X] Community building > [ ] Nearing graduation > > Date of last release: > > XXXX-XX-XX > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > Maya Debellis was elected as a committer on 2019-02-08 > > Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling > through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues > that need to be addressed. > > Yes, mentors have been helpful and responsive. > > Signed-off-by: > > [ ](sdap) Jörn Kottmann > Comments: > [ ](sdap) Trevor Grant > Comments: > [ ](sdap) Lewis John McGibbney > Comments: >
