Nice work! This looks very compelling. I like how the proposed titles and the abstract both hook the reader in by describing the high-level use case of SDLC efficiency. I'm sure that's going to look exciting for a lot of the Apache community.
My only suggestion is to try to sneak in a more specific mention of what these tools are, i.e. "...tools that reduce the burden of pre-commit testing, release note compilation and shell script documentation." Or... "...will discuss the various components that make up the Yetus toolset: Yetus Precommit, Yetus Release Doc Maker and Yetus Shelldocs." That would give a potential audience member a more specific picture of what we're trying to provide. On the titles, I feel like I'm missing a joke on the first one. Googling "and this time Y" just gave me a bunch of links to Dr. Who wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. :-) Is there something I missed? Barring that, I have a slight preference for "Helping Solve the Last Mile Problem" at this point. --Chris Nauroth On 2/9/16, 11:52 AM, "Allen Wittenauer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >As promised, here¹s my current draft proposal (with much thanks to >Barbara Lewis who did a pass as well). Also, help me pick a title... > >Abstract > > >TITLE: > € Š and this time Y: Introducing Apache Yetus > € Apache Yetus - Helping Solve the Last Mile Problem > € Apache Yetus - Go from Code to Production, Faster > >ABSTRACT: > >In this time of rapidly growing software projects and software >capabilities, where it is expected for ³software to eat the world,² there >is still a huge challenge going from source code to a tested, fully >functional release. This is the ³last mile problem,² ensuring that vision >and coding become real, deployable software. To help address this >problem, members of the extended Apache Hadoop/²big data² ecosystem have >joined forces to create tools that reduce the burden. In this talk, >Allen Wittenauer, a PMC member of the Apache Yetus project, will discuss >the various components that make up the Yetus toolset, as well as how >Apache Hadoop and other projects are using Apache Yetus to improve >release quality. > >AUDIENCE: > >The primary audience is anyone interested in improving their software >lifecycle processes, both open or closed source software. This includes >contributors to Apache Accumulo, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, and other >projects utilizing Apache Yetus who are curious about what happens behind >the scenes. Other audience members may be interested in which tools end >up being created when dealing with large, open source projects. > >BENEFITS TO THE ECOSYSTEM: > >The quality of software releases is of primary concern to many >organizations, and it is especially critical to large, open source >projects involving the contributions of tens of thousands of patches by >hundreds of contributors and committers. This presentation is an >opportunity for all participants to learn about real tools that anyone >may use, to improve software releases today as well as improve the state >of the art in the future.
