Hi! All, I have been monitoring this topic for a while , and it seem to me that the discussion on this list should cover a much larger community then an in person meeting, hence i do not understand why we would need ApacheCon to graduate this project. I also believe that we are all putting significant effort into this project form multiple companies, so I strongly believe this project is ready for graduation.
Thanks, Luca On 03/31/2014 09:35 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > Hi All, > > I am intentionally not replying to any previous discussions as I will not be > doing justice chiming in late. I was following the project closely until late > November and since then only managed to keep track of private lists and not > so much of the dev list. I will share my random views which may or may not > resonate accurately. > > * In November, when a flag was raised to not to rush to graduation and > instead focus on diversity, the PPMC has well received the suggestion and did > put in effort. That by itself speaks something. So I think we should not pull > the strings too far. I certainly sense the rush for graduation again, but I > personally do not see anything wrong with it now and I feel the project has > earned it. > > * From my own experience, I feel following stratos dev list and contributing > to the project is like drinking from a fire-hose. I think the project can do > better in providing and maintaining incumbent tasks, documents and exploring > other means. But I do not see this as a blocker for graduation. From what I > have seen (atleast until November), the PPMC has been putting effort in doing > hangouts and other forms of architecture discussions on mailing list. Whether > these have yielded or not, I do not want to quantify it. To me as a mentor, I > would like to see the intent and I have clearly seen it right from the > beginning. To put it other way, I have not seen any reluctance or > unwelcomeness. > > * I have noticed Stratos GSoC proposals while helping with GSoC > administration. (without divulging into details) I am pleased to see mentors > from this PPMC pro-active participation. The students were also able to > navigate enough to and propose projects. To me this tells both a positive > story as well as missed opportunities from casual contributors. One reason I > can think of why only GSoC students succeeded to get around and not others > (with a observed assumption from noticing a handful of students randomly > jumping into other cloud related projects) is stratos barrier is high and the > project is overwhelming. Rapid changes to architectures in the past few > months has raised the bar of needed volunteer time. Hopefully once that slows > down, the project will be more attractive (rather contributors will find a > way to catch up). > > * Going forward (irrespective of the graduation), the project should really > has to put extra effort to attract casual contributions. I think they go a > long way. Again maintaining lot of starter tasks, providing good developer > documentation and test cases to validate these contributions and so on. > > Orthogonal to all these random observations, I am fully in favor of > graduation readiness and very pleased to see the discussion converge and > charter being circulated. May be we can move to the PPMC vote soon and take > it from there. > > Cheers, > Suresh > > P.S Trying to catch up with all the missed action, I appreciate and admire > the hands-on mentoring Noah, Chip and others were able to manage.
