Having a list of "todos" (jira, wiki is fine too) that's easily accessible to potential new contributors is also helpful. For example, I could see ppl getting excited about adding mr2 support.
Patrick On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > This is a great thread to start up. > > Couple ideas for growing community: > > 1. getting users of the system on the mailing list. Do you guys have any > users there at Cloudera > that say aren't on the mailing list for MRUnit, that could join? That could > help generate interest. > > 2. sending an email to general@incubator, or general@hadoop asking for folks > interested in the > project to come and join up. > > 3. getting a release together and pushing it out, generating some interest. > > I'd say it's something we should start to report in our MRUnit status reports > (something to watch), but > we're not sunk yet. We just need to get a bit more vigilant about the > community and the project. My > contributions unfortunately at this point are guidance, VOTE'ing, and helping > with the ASF policies > and procedures, and less code oriented at this time. But I'll try and step up > my involvement. > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Eric Sammer wrote: > >> I just knocked off the website publish (maven generated) from the list of >> things to do. I talked to Tom White today at the office about being >> concerned about (lack of) community involvement. My time has been limited >> recently - I've had to focus on Flume to a much greater degree - but a >> community of one isn't a good thing anyway. >> >> Maybe it's a separate discussion, but it would be great to find a way to >> increase general participation. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey Guys, >>> >>> I added a stub report here: >>> >>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2011 >>> >>> Please feel free to improve it and adapt. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Chris >>> >>> On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Guys, >>>> >>>> Our Incubator report is due. I'll add a stub in there if I don't see any >>> activity in the next 24 hours. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >>>> Senior Computer Scientist >>>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >>>> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >>>> Email: [email protected] >>>> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >>>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>> >>> >>> >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >>> Senior Computer Scientist >>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >>> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >>> Email: [email protected] >>> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Eric Sammer >> twitter: esammer >> data: www.cloudera.com > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >
