In the "plans for the next period" section, I removed "Increase
release frequency", since, in my opinion, we've done a fairly good job
of that with consistent quarterly releases.  I think the main focus
needs to be on building community and contributions, so I added
"Encourage contributions from active users".  Along with "Identify
potential committers", I think this gets across that we need to build
the active developer community.  In support of that, I think there are
more improvements we can make to docs and the website to help get
people started.

In a separate thread, I mentioned adding a "Powered By" page that
folks can use to describe their use of Twill.  We'll first need a wiki
where that page can exist.  I'll take that on.  Any other ideas for
doc improvements to help get people started are welcome.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I feel that our "plans for the next period" have not changed much over the
> past year...
> Can we say the  documentation and website is good enough now? Or should we
> keep that, and actually follow up on it?
>
> Other than that +1
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Gary Helmling <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The Apache Twill board report is due on the Wednesday, the 5th.  Here
>> is what I was planning to submit.  We've established a good cadence of
>> at least quarterly releases, so I've dropped that from the planning
>> section and shifted instead towards building contributions.  Please
>> let me know if you'd like to see anything else highlighted or changed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Twill
>>
>> Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity
>> of
>> developing distributed applications.
>>
>> Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
>>
>> Top three items to resolve before graduation:
>>
>>   - More committers from different organizations.
>>   - Regular releases.
>>   - Increase adoption.
>>
>> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
>> aware of?
>>
>>   - None at this time.
>>
>> How has the community developed since the last report?
>>   - 8 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-08-01)
>>   - 7 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-08-01)
>>   - Subscribers to the dev list up from 52 in August to 58 in November.
>>   - the project voted on and adopted a logo
>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TWILL-102)
>>
>> How has the project developed since the last report?
>>
>>   - Version 0.4.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon
>>
>> Date of last release:
>>
>>   - 2014-08-20: 0.3.0-incubating
>>
>> What are the plans for the next period?
>>
>>   - Encourage contributions from active users
>>   - Identify potential committers
>>   - Improve documentation and website
>>
>> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>>
>>   - No new committers since incubation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by:
>>
>>   [ ](twill) Vinod K
>>   [ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
>>   [ ](twill) Tom White
>>   [ ](twill) Patrick Hunt
>>

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