Hi All, I had a reply from the VP of ASF Brand Mgt regarding the podling name search, stating:
Nope, PODLINGNAMESEARCH-79 is approved, so all set from the naming perspective, no action needed. This will put the action mentioned earlier in this thread to rest. Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OEM - The OFBiz Extensions Marketplace1 http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ 1 not affiliated to (and not endorsed by) the OFBiz project On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Atri, all, > > *Re: podling name search* > That sub-process was initiated and concluded successfully back when we > started the incubation process (see [1]). However, given the time passed > since then your suggestion is a good one. I will reach out to Apache Brand > Management, and find out whether we should redo the search. I will post > results of that discussion here (in this ml). > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-79 > > Best regards, > > > Pierre Smits > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > OFBiz based solutions & services > > OEM - The OFBiz Extensions Marketplace1 > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ > 1 not affiliated to (and not endorsed by) the OFBiz project > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Atri Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
