On 9/20/07, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote: > > Yahoo! research and development teams have developed a proposal > > below. The > > proposal is also available on wiki at > > <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal> > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PigProposal. > > We would like to ask that the ASF consider forming a podling > > according to > > the proposal. > > ... > > Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets. > > +1, looks cool! > > ...seems like your biggest challenge here is attracting a diverse > developer community, and hopefully the apache incubation process will > help you there...
+1 it's very important to focus on encouraging new developers in the neonate period of a project the energy required to let people know about a new project is often underestimated. the open source space is now much bigger and more diffuse than years ago. so it's not as easy for interesting projects and interested people to find each other any more. stuff like blogging (www.planetapache.org aggregates many blogs written by apache committers) and podcasting (www.feathercast.org is an apache podcast) are useful but tend to reach only people who are already interested in apache. articles, grassroots meeting and conference talks are also important. one of the black arts is trying to ensure that the right level of exposure is acheived. too much too early before the development infrastructure is ready leads to disappointment but too little too late when the project is too finished means that there is less chance for meaningful contributions to be made. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
