On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Stuart Monteith<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > A change was made this morning to the September 2009 incubator status > report. The phrase "Signed off by:" has been added to each projects entry > with the expectation that these will be completed by the project mentor. > > Mentors, could you review the reports for accuracy please?
looks fine i think kato's going fine so far but it's now reaching the time when the project needs to start working on starting to reach out to a wider community. this isn't something which is going to happen overnight: community building's hard and takes a long time. a lot of people find this bit fun in the end even if it's sometimes a little dispiriting at first. a good place to start is by doing a little more talking, both on list and on blogs (join http://planet.apache.org/committers/). the atmosphere on list is good but the buzz isn't there ATM. this isn't going to change over night but even if it seems as though no one is paying attention at the start, continue to posting to the world and some of the people who read will start replying and contributing ideas and code. opinions? ;-) > I overlooked this from last month's archive: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200908.mbox/%[email protected]%3e > > which stated the policy. just FYI it's not POLICY but a new convention ;-) POLICY requires a VOTE on an update to normative documentation. generally, apache tries to run with as little POLICY as possible but with lots of convention. this usually takes a while to get used to and can be quite frustrating (especially with releases). - robert
