please add me to the list of 'contributors' in Jira. On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:56 PM, sblackmon <sblack...@apache.org> wrote:
> With 0.3-incubating in the books, it’s time to take a look at what is most > important for the next release. > > Here are a few concrete things I propose we tackle in October. They are > tagged in JIRA with fixVersion=0.4 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STREAMS-418?filter=12338530 > > I saw some new issues being created the last few days. Please keep it up, > no matter how small! > > Major themes: > * Reboot and Clean-up > * Provider and Configuration consistency > * Prep for the AS 2.0 switch > Also: > * POC persist integration tests with docker > * POC provider integration tests that perform collection > * Fix lingering and simple bugs / documentation > * Flink example code > > If we target early week of October 24 for code freeze and cut rc1 that > should give us time to get the release passed (hopefully with unanimous > support from three active IPMC members on PPMC) by our November report. > > Feedback welcome! And feel free to assign yourself or let us someone with > permissions know if you want to have something assigned to you. > > Steve > On September 28, 2016 at 3:00:01 PM, sblackmon (sblack...@apache.org) > wrote: > > All, > > Joey brought this up over the weekend and I think a discussion is overdue > on the topic. > > Encouraging community growth and performing regular releases are on our > list of graduation criteria. > > A few easy behaviors we can adopt to take to make progress on these goals: > - planning release versions around one or two significant improvements > - setting target dates to kick off upcoming releases > - prioritizing our backlog after each release > - discussing project and community milestones openly on the list > - organizing JIRA so that all contributors (especially new) can decide > where it’s most important to focus their efforts > > I think to get things moving again and demonstrate we are capable of > consistent progress, we should aim to perform a release once per month > around the end of the month. > > As for what to focus on, I think it’s time to discuss adopting Activity > Streams 2.0, figure out what form that transition would take, and get > started down that path. Working implementations demonstrate the > suitability of the standard and drive it’s adoption, and the prospects of > this project are closely tied to those of the standard. Separate DISCUSS > coming on this topic. > > Also important for the ‘reboot’ theme, we should delete any modules we > aren’t going to maintain, and bring all modules we are going to maintain up > to acceptable standards - exactly what that means is an open question but > broadly they should have documentation, code comments, and tests at the > level of a typical module in a typical TLP. > > Expanding the examples to demonstrate how to use streams providers and > processors within various execution engines and fixing any bugs that have > been reported is desirable as well. Adding at least one new example per > release is a good target for now. > > I have created some future versions with target release dates in JIRA and > invite all committers to associate existing or new issues with those > releases, or anyone who can’t modify JIRA to summarize their thoughts and > share with the list and I will incorporate those ideas into JIRA. This > should be the default reference for anyone looking for a way to help - look > at issues associated with the next few releases and the top of the backlog > and pick something that appeals and is in line with your experience. > > Anything else that should be a top priority for the rest of the year? Or > other ideas on improving planning and coordination? > > Steve > > On September 24, 2016 at 1:01:02 PM, apache (sblack...@apache.org) wrote: > - This has already come up, but maybe ActivityStreams 2.0 support would > broaden the community and motivate more work. It's also a concrete > goal to work toward so people would know where they can start. > - Steve and I did a little work here a few months ago, but the JIRA > could reflect the priorities better and I think keep the community working > in a common direction.