Thanks for the review and comments! Posted the report to the Incubator report wiki page: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/November2014
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >>
