Will the podling be progressing on a vote in time for the next board report (7/19)? Please make sure you draft your proposal. You can take a sample draft from https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/ppmc/fluo (it's all the way at the bottom)
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:55 AM Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks, John. Consider this mentor +1 then. > > On 7/5/17 7:03 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > > For what it's worth, I have no concerns with Fluo's graduation based on > the > > conversation here. > > > > John > > > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 7:02 PM Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 7/5/17 1:51 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > >>> Hi Josh, > >>> > >>> I have some questions: > >>> > >>>> On Jul 5, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> As a mentor, I consciously avoided an explicit "+1" until we got some > >> IPMC discussion. Let me expand: > >>>> > >>>> The current members of Fluo are great, get the Apache Way, and are > >> self-sufficient. I have no concerns over them operating as a TLP -- I > think > >> they are ready. However, they have only added a single committer and I > see > >> none in the pipeline -- Fluo is defined by the current committers. > >>> > >>> (1) Seems to be a niche project as you state below which is just within > >> the range of 5 contributors. Am I wrong? > >> > >> Yup, that sounds about right. I'm notice three of them being the most > >> active, but I tend to not watch that closely. > >> > >>>> My hesitation is balancing the Incubators goal of "pushing podlings to > >> graduate" and ensuring adequate diversity in the podling. This is > >> especially difficult for Fluo as they're "niche on niche" (it's a > difficult > >> dist-sys problem/software, and not many people use the tech they're > >> building on top of given my view of the world). > >>>> > >>>> I realize that this discussion could easily spiral out of control, > >> turning into some meta-discussion about Incubator goals. I want to avoid > >> that. > >>>> > >>>> I'm looking for some feelings from other IPMC folks about how to > >> approach the Fluo podling given their specific circumstances. If other > >> people are also hesitant, I would also be interested in suggestions > about > >> what we would concretely change (because I don't know what to suggest > that > >> "fix" the diversity issue for them that isn't changing the core of their > >> project). If people aren't worried, I'm happy to give an explicit +1. > >>> > >>> (2) Has any consideration been given to becoming a project within > >> Accumulo? Or are the goals of Fluo distinct from and not wholly > dependent > >> on Accumulo? > >>> > >>> (3) Corollary - it seems a large number of Fluo Initial Committers were > >> also Accumulo PMC. (I not intentionally rehashing any prior > conversation.) > >>> > >> > >> Will leave Christopher's response to (thoroughly) answer this ;) > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
