Hi Pierre, Thanks for your response.
My response inline: >> Few of my comments: >> >> 1) Growth of the community. I see that Trafodion has added few >> committers and PPMC members (which is great). However, I would like to >> understand the number of active contributors who are currently >> contributing rather than a specific set of people who are committers >> and make up the major portion of contributions to the project. >> > > You can research the various public mailing lists of the project in: > https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] > AS> Cool, looks good to me. >> >> 2) Releases -- Trafodion's last release has had quite some distance >> from the release previous to it. Is there any specific reason for >> that? >> >> > This is a volunteer driven open source project, and the project can not > dictate where and where contributions will happen. Given that premise, no > schedule is available. Nor has anyone - as far as I can tell - ever > requested such a fulfilment as a piece of work of the project. > > AS> I understand that. However, a continous release cycle points towards a continous onslaught of tangible improvements to the project as well as an ongoing interest in the project. That is a good indicator that the project has been able to establish a foundation of a stable community which can drive the project forard. >> 3) Homogeneous community -- Since Trafodion has a major investment >> from a specific company, do we have PPMC members and committers mostly >> from that company, or do we have heterogeneous community? >> >> Yes. See > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TRAFODION/Contributors > The diversity aspect is currently also part of the earlier mentioned > discussion taking place in the private ML of the project. > AS> That is one thing that we should definitely look into since it will definitely come up in the TLP discussion on Incubator PMC. >> 4) Mailing lists -- I have been on the emailing list for less than 48 >> hours, so please forgive my short sighted opinion, but I do not see >> much dev activity happening on the list. Is that a regular practise or >> something that we need to fix? >> > > We (I) do (forgive you. :) > At the moment, we (the PPMC) don't see anything happening on our public > mailing lists that needs fixing. Of course, we all can have personal > viewpoints about what needs to be happening there as well as about how > frequents postings happen (and some may even argue by whom), but like I > said earlier the project can not dictate contributions. Each of our > contributors chips in when and where possible. > AS> If this is not a concern, I am fine with that. Apologies for the nitpicking :) If no other concerns are raised, I do not see any outstanding reason as to why we cannot proceed with a TLP resolution. I suggest that we start a podling Namesearch and get the trademark issues out of the way (if any, I could not figure that out from the Podling page) and draft a TLP resolution. Regards, Atri -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant
