I agree wholeheartedly with you on the various benefits you implied. ;-) For sure, working towards the next release will iron out some wrinkles. We're not in a rush and can wait for that.
But this discussion is good to get all blocking issues on the table (it is not a vote). Then we get a feel for what is needed to get the kite flying. Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > To address the list: > > > > Regarding the community: > > You can establish a sense of our community growth in our reports to the > > board, the only indicators regarding 'users'/contributors we have is the > > increase of subscribers to the mailing lists and potentially the > followers > > of the social media accounts (Twitter, etc.). With respect to the growth > of > > privileged contributors see the reports also. FWiW, I am one. > > > > > Would be sweet if there were more yous, contributors/participants rather > than subscribers to lists. Will wait on Carol's report. > > > > > Re: release > > We have released our source code under the Apache flag; it is Trafodion > > 1.3.0. There is no obligation to release a distribution that runs only > > against Apache 'bits'. Any distribution made available is convenience. A > > distribution with Apache only elements (Hadoop, HBase, Zookeeper, Ambari, > > etc) would surely be a nice-to-have, and also a means to show > cross-selling > > Apache products that could lead to cross-pollination (adoption and > > community growth wise). > > > > Yes, we've fulfilled the letter of the law in that we've made an Apache > release. Would be healthy if another one at least was done while inside > incubator just to show 1.3.0 was not a 'fluke' (smile). We found some good > stuff getting 1.3.0 out the door. Another round wouldn't hurt I'd say > (IMO). > > And this also, this is just my opinion, but if this is to be an Apache TLP, > I'd think it behooves that it is possible to run on Apache releases w/o > need of a vendor intermediary. Being able to do this will also help get T* > distributed wider afield. > > St.Ack > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Pierre Smits > > > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > > OFBiz based solutions & services > > > > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace > > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ > > >
