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On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant
