OK, we can and should focus more on encouraging new contributors to join. Then I am +1.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Gary Helmling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> >
