Re: Request for Mentor

2019-03-29 Thread Julian Feinauer
Hi Lewis,

although, I cannot fulfill your requirement as a formal mentor (as I'm no IPMC 
member) I will join your list and will try to help you with performing the 
release as I've done several releases as RM in the past.

Julian

Am 28.03.19, 21:02 schrieb "Trevor Grant" :

Looks like an awesome project, I'd be happy to help.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 1:50 PM lewis john mcgibbney 
wrote:

> Hi general@,
>
> The Apache Science Data Analytics Platform (SDAP) (Incubating) project is
> in need of an active mentor!
>
> What is SDAP?
> http://sdap.apache.org/
> SDAP is a technology software solution currently geared to better enable
> scientists involved in advancing the study of the Earth's physical
> oceanography.
> The platform is an orchestration of several previously funded NASA big
> ocean data solutions using cloud technology, which include:
>
>- data analysis (NEXUS)
>- anomaly detection (OceanXtremes)
>- matchup (DOMS)
>- subsetting
>- discovery (MUDROD)
>- visualization (VQSS)
>
> What state is the podling in?
> SDAP is working towards it's first formal release having encountered some
> issues with the initial release candidate. The Podling requires a mentor
> who can come on board and drive through the generation of Apache-compliant
> release candidates so that the project can continue to grow community
> through usage.
>
> Interested?
> Let us know by responding to this thread ensuring that you CC 
dev@sdap.a.o.
>
> Thank you
> Lewis
>
> --
> http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/
> http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc
>




Re: Request for Mentor

2019-03-28 Thread Trevor Grant
Looks like an awesome project, I'd be happy to help.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 1:50 PM lewis john mcgibbney 
wrote:

> Hi general@,
>
> The Apache Science Data Analytics Platform (SDAP) (Incubating) project is
> in need of an active mentor!
>
> What is SDAP?
> http://sdap.apache.org/
> SDAP is a technology software solution currently geared to better enable
> scientists involved in advancing the study of the Earth's physical
> oceanography.
> The platform is an orchestration of several previously funded NASA big
> ocean data solutions using cloud technology, which include:
>
>- data analysis (NEXUS)
>- anomaly detection (OceanXtremes)
>- matchup (DOMS)
>- subsetting
>- discovery (MUDROD)
>- visualization (VQSS)
>
> What state is the podling in?
> SDAP is working towards it's first formal release having encountered some
> issues with the initial release candidate. The Podling requires a mentor
> who can come on board and drive through the generation of Apache-compliant
> release candidates so that the project can continue to grow community
> through usage.
>
> Interested?
> Let us know by responding to this thread ensuring that you CC dev@sdap.a.o.
>
> Thank you
> Lewis
>
> --
> http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/
> http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc
>


Re: Request for Mentor

2019-03-28 Thread Gang(Gary) Wang
It is a great valuable platform for our living environment, hope I have the
opportunity to help this project success.

Gary(Binding)



On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:50 AM lewis john mcgibbney 
wrote:

> Hi general@,
>
> The Apache Science Data Analytics Platform (SDAP) (Incubating) project is
> in need of an active mentor!
>
> What is SDAP?
> http://sdap.apache.org/
> SDAP is a technology software solution currently geared to better enable
> scientists involved in advancing the study of the Earth's physical
> oceanography.
> The platform is an orchestration of several previously funded NASA big
> ocean data solutions using cloud technology, which include:
>
>- data analysis (NEXUS)
>- anomaly detection (OceanXtremes)
>- matchup (DOMS)
>- subsetting
>- discovery (MUDROD)
>- visualization (VQSS)
>
> What state is the podling in?
> SDAP is working towards it's first formal release having encountered some
> issues with the initial release candidate. The Podling requires a mentor
> who can come on board and drive through the generation of Apache-compliant
> release candidates so that the project can continue to grow community
> through usage.
>
> Interested?
> Let us know by responding to this thread ensuring that you CC dev@sdap.a.o.
>
> Thank you
> Lewis
>
> --
> http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/
> http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc
>


Request for Mentor

2019-03-28 Thread lewis john mcgibbney
Hi general@,

The Apache Science Data Analytics Platform (SDAP) (Incubating) project is
in need of an active mentor!

What is SDAP?
http://sdap.apache.org/
SDAP is a technology software solution currently geared to better enable
scientists involved in advancing the study of the Earth's physical
oceanography.
The platform is an orchestration of several previously funded NASA big
ocean data solutions using cloud technology, which include:

   - data analysis (NEXUS)
   - anomaly detection (OceanXtremes)
   - matchup (DOMS)
   - subsetting
   - discovery (MUDROD)
   - visualization (VQSS)

What state is the podling in?
SDAP is working towards it's first formal release having encountered some
issues with the initial release candidate. The Podling requires a mentor
who can come on board and drive through the generation of Apache-compliant
release candidates so that the project can continue to grow community
through usage.

Interested?
Let us know by responding to this thread ensuring that you CC dev@sdap.a.o.

Thank you
Lewis

-- 
http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/
http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc


Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-24 Thread Mohammad Islam
My personal experience with Tez for last few months was very good. 

Although I am not from the same company from where the Tez project originally 
started, the Tez community was very helpful to quickly ramp me up. The 
community has patiently and promptly gave the constructive feedbacks/comments 
about my patches.
In addition, I attended a few tech-talks and presentations that originally 
helped me to understand its long term vision.

At the same time, I really appreciate the incubator community to ask these 
relevant and important questions.

Regards,
Mohammad Islam
 

On Monday, June 23, 2014 10:52 PM, Rohini Palaniswamy rohini.adi...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 


I will add my two cents in here on the diversity front as a member of the
Pig team which has been working closely with Tez team for the past 3
quarters.

There has been a whole lot of features and design changes done in Tez
driven by requirements from Pig and it has been a pleasure working with the
Tez community. We have had a really good collaboration and development has
happened at a really really fast pace both in Pig and Tez,
 with Pig team
picking features from Tez snapshot builds as and when they are fixed. We
just merged Pig on Tez branch into Pig trunk last month. Most of the
collaboration has been through jiras and you can see a lot of linked Pig
jiras. Pig on Tez is especially a cross-company team effort in Apache -
Yahoo!, Hortonworks, Netflix and LinkedIn and many of the requirements and
fixes on Tez has been driven by the security, performance and large scale
needs of these companies. http://tinyurl.com/m5tbzxt is the list of Tez
jiras created just by the Pig team (48 jiras). There were at least quite a
few more created by others when we reported issues in mails.

Hive of course is the other big project and Cascading is
 also into the mix
now. With all the widely adopted analytics tools on top of Hadoop adding
support for it and many companies adopting it there is very good future for
Tez and I think it is just prejudice to call it as a commercial development
masquerading as an Apache community. We really see it as a replacement for
mapreduce in the near term and pleased with the current results and the
future potential as a user and have been investing in the development of
Tez as well with dedicated resources. We opened Pig and Hive on Tez for
testing for users in Yahoo! in Apr and Cheolsoo opened up Pig on Tez for
users in Netflix this month and both Netflix and Y! have plans to get it
into production by end of the year and Linkedin also hopes to do the same.
With this early adoption from some
 of the biggest users of hadoop, I am
sure Tez will only become more stable and mature in the coming year and
gain more traction and wider adoption with other users as well as more
companies migrate to Hadoop 2.

Regards,
Rohini



On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
 vino...@apache.org wrote:
  I see two threads here
   - Concerns about graduation of Apache Tez project w.r.t diversity
 based
 on the PPMC html page
   - Community related threads about things like whether diversity is a
 hard requirement or how
  to grow communities.
 
  AFAICT, Hitesh's latest information on the state of the members of the
 team
  (and the updated page) should allay any concerns on diversity.
 
  If people disagree, we can continue this thread along that discussion.
 If not, we can close this topic as the graduation discussion/vote proceeds
 here and elsewhere.
 
  The other threads may be valuable but OT IMHO and so are better forked
 into their own threads.

 I personally
 think both are very closely related. Like I said, to
 me the diversity thread is really in support of the thesis that
 the project is capable of growing a community outside of
 a forcing function of a single employer.

 That said, I haven't done the due diligence to form my personal
 opinion one way or another. I am going to do it this week.

 Thanks,
 Roman.


Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-24 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
If I am not mistaken, no one really doubt the possible value of Tez
(incubating) for other open- and close-source projects. I don't think it
is an intention of the IPMC or a wider incubator community to pass the
judgement on the technical viability of a project.

What is discussed, on the other hand, is how successful said PPMC in achieving
the goal of community building and diversification. The link to the project
XML was very helpful in understanding the amount of the people involved
into the day-to-day activities. And it's great! However, the question that
remains unanswered so far - unless I've missed the answer - about the spread
of the PPMC and committers?

What is the chances of the project staying alive and vibrant if a commercial
entity will decide to cease its participation in the project?

Regards,
  Cos

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:51PM, Rohini Palaniswamy wrote:
 I will add my two cents in here on the diversity front as a member of the
 Pig team which has been working closely with Tez team for the past 3
 quarters.
 
  There has been a whole lot of features and design changes done in Tez
 driven by requirements from Pig and it has been a pleasure working with the
 Tez community. We have had a really good collaboration and development has
 happened at a really really fast pace both in Pig and Tez, with Pig team
 picking features from Tez snapshot builds as and when they are fixed. We
 just merged Pig on Tez branch into Pig trunk last month. Most of the
 collaboration has been through jiras and you can see a lot of linked Pig
 jiras. Pig on Tez is especially a cross-company team effort in Apache -
 Yahoo!, Hortonworks, Netflix and LinkedIn and many of the requirements and
 fixes on Tez has been driven by the security, performance and large scale
 needs of these companies. http://tinyurl.com/m5tbzxt is the list of Tez
 jiras created just by the Pig team (48 jiras). There were at least quite a
 few more created by others when we reported issues in mails.
 
  Hive of course is the other big project and Cascading is also into the mix
 now. With all the widely adopted analytics tools on top of Hadoop adding
 support for it and many companies adopting it there is very good future for
 Tez and I think it is just prejudice to call it as a commercial development
 masquerading as an Apache community. We really see it as a replacement for
 mapreduce in the near term and pleased with the current results and the
 future potential as a user and have been investing in the development of
 Tez as well with dedicated resources. We opened Pig and Hive on Tez for
 testing for users in Yahoo! in Apr and Cheolsoo opened up Pig on Tez for
 users in Netflix this month and both Netflix and Y! have plans to get it
 into production by end of the year and Linkedin also hopes to do the same.
 With this early adoption from some of the biggest users of hadoop, I am
 sure Tez will only become more stable and mature in the coming year and
 gain more traction and wider adoption with other users as well as more
 companies migrate to Hadoop 2.
 
 Regards,
 Rohini
 
 
 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:
 
  On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
  vino...@apache.org wrote:
   I see two threads here
- Concerns about graduation of Apache Tez project w.r.t diversity based
  on the PPMC html page
- Community related threads about things like whether diversity is a
  hard requirement or how
   to grow communities.
  
   AFAICT, Hitesh's latest information on the state of the members of the
  team
   (and the updated page) should allay any concerns on diversity.
  
   If people disagree, we can continue this thread along that discussion.
  If not, we can close this topic as the graduation discussion/vote proceeds
  here and elsewhere.
  
   The other threads may be valuable but OT IMHO and so are better forked
  into their own threads.
 
  I personally think both are very closely related. Like I said, to
  me the diversity thread is really in support of the thesis that
  the project is capable of growing a community outside of
  a forcing function of a single employer.
 
  That said, I haven't done the due diligence to form my personal
  opinion one way or another. I am going to do it this week.
 
  Thanks,
  Roman.
 


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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-24 Thread Chris Douglas
I'll detail why I think Tez is ready to graduate.

Nobody is concerned about its activity, relevance, or ability to
produce releases. So I won't belabor those points. Let's focus on
whether the Tez project is approachable as a project and as a
community.

Posting project plans and discussing them on JIRA does not appear to
be a problem, now. Early in its incubation there were some periods of
inactivity followed by a deluge of issues, filed and committed with
minimal discussion. However, of the issues I'm watching recently, most
of the discussion- including semantic issues much easier to work out
intra-office- are on-list. By way of example, TEZ-1157 is one random
issue I subscribe to: it discusses tradeoffs, cross-references other
JIRAs, and is accessible to someone familiar with the problem, but not
employed at Hortonworks. I haven't kept statistics, but I usually scan
the list to track it's progress every couple weeks. Recently, my
impression is that it's been a steady stream not only of code, but
also debate.

Before they were nominated as committers, I also recognized names from
other organizations- like Mohammad Islam who I know from the Oozie
project- interacting on the dev list and posting code. Going to the
back of my archive, even early issues from external contributors- like
TEZ-235- received review comments and attention from committers. When
they appear, contributors are welcomed. Tez has been presented often
and at many levels of detail. I doubt any source for contributors has
been passed over deliberately, so if you know of meetups/hackathons
where Tez might present: invite them.

We should be equally frank about its challenges. Tez is not an easy
project to learn. Some of this is a technical barrier that could be
overcome by more documentation, wiki content (how to develop, where
code lives, etc.), and strategies like maintaining a list of newbie
issues. These are all reasonable expectations of an Apache project.
Most contributors will put up with review comment latency, but
orientation could be less painful than it is. That these materials are
not developed speaks to the effect that Ted alludes to: most people
who work on Tez have a compelling, professional reason to propel them
through the steep learning curve. The code is less volatile than it
was initially, so an investment in docs could be worthwhile.

All of these are suggestions for that community to grow its base and
are not a prerequisite for graduation. The project cuts releases,
develops actively in the open, and has absorbed the incubator
curriculum. Its members are aware of the challenges discussed in this
thread and will report on them to the board. In short, the community
can be trusted with all the autonomy of a TLP; continued incubation
serves no purpose.

If there exists a problem the IPMC can solve- NOTICE/LICENSE
improperly maintained, education on ASF resources/policy, bad release
hygiene- then great, let's fix it. If not, then this incubation has
concluded and we can recommend it to the board as a TLP. -C

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bikas Saha bi...@hortonworks.com wrote:

 Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord.


 Really, I was going to run away for a bit, but my feeling is that this
 statement is amazingly naive about how communities are built.

 Community doesn't just happen.  Community doesn't just grow of its own
 accord.  Community grows when people make serious, explicit actions to help
 it grow, to bring in newcomers, to publish plans in many places *before*
 code is written.

 Building community is hard work that you have to intend to do.  If you
 don't do the work, it won't just happen any more than code writes itself.

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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

 Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some specific
 level of diversity, there is a requirement that the group demonstrate
 community building.

 I'm also sympathetic to this: you can see my thread here where originally
 I didn't
 think much had been going on until I explicitly checked the lists and went
 through
 the archives and saw ~7 IIRC PPMC members/committers added since entering
 [1]. That's
 community building regardless of what affiliation those new members came
 from.

 The other metrics and statistics (health of the mailing lists/open
 discussions have
 been increasing; releases have been made, etc.) are all there and outlined
 in [1].


As I read the private list, there has been absolutely no effort at adding
committers until last month when the topic of graduation has come up. There
is no substantive discussion on the list of the potential committers, but
simply rather perfunctory +1 votes.

In reading the thread about whether there should be/is a diversity
requirement, I come to a bit of a different conclusion as well.  What I see
in the discussion is that the participants seem to agree that

- there should not be a simple count-based diversity measure because this
would dissuade valuable commercial contributions

- the chance/likelihood of project failure due to a dominant commercial
contributor pulling out should not be considered since project dormancy or
retirement isn't a bad thing.  Better to try and fail than never try.

- there is clear recognition of the risk of commercial companies inventing
a project not so much because of a desire to build community but rather as
a marketing maneuver.

- there is no mention of the problems that have arisen in the Hadoop groups
relative to use of groups and Apache trademarks for marketing purposes.

I don't want to impute motives to actions since I cannot know what others
hold in their hearts, but I don't see evidence of efforts to really build
the community.  There was one meat-space meetup a year ago.  There have
been a few presentations of what Tez is.

I do see a fair number of public statements of the form Tez is Hortonworks
answer to Impala or The future of Hadoop runs on Tez, most of which seem
to come out of Hortonworks' marketing department.

In looking at the dev list back to September of last year, I see a large
number of procedural messages (votes, results, release mechanics), a few
user questions (NPE in such and so, how do I install) and very few design
discussions.  There was one thread last November about combiners, another
in January about map parallelism, and one more in March about reducer
parallelism.  To me this looks a lot like a project where all design
discussions are occurring off-list.

What I would like to see would include

- a strong effort on the part of Tez to bring all design and implementation
discussions to the list,

- continuous community engagement efforts such as weekly hangouts in
different timezones to help new contributors understand what is happening
technically in the project in an interactive setting

- lots of public talks focussed on how outsiders can contribute and how the
design works

- cross posting on related projects offering cross pollination
opportunities.  Such related groups might be Drill, Optiq, Tajo and Spark.
 These postings would say things like how could you guys help us with Tez
or Tez has this and such, would that be helpful to you guys.

- inviting contributors from related projects to give technical
presentations in the context of Tez

Now, my searches have been fairly cursory and could have missed important
activities, but I have a bit of a hard time believing that I have missed
major efforts along these lines.

Based on this evidence, it really does look to me like Tez is a purely
commercial development masquerading as an Apache community.

I agree that superficial diversity metrics are counter-productive, but I
also assert that there isn't any obvious evidence of serious community
building here and there is significant evidence that building community
isn't even the point of the project.  That *is* a substantive issue
relative to graduation.


Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Thanks Ted, these are all important points that require responses. I have
CC'ed the dev@tez.i.a.o
list, where I hope the Tez community can respond to your points below in
detail. 

Guys, please see Ted's comments below and please try to address them in
light of the

recent [DISCUSS] Graduation thread I raised. It's fine if the answer to
some of the
points is (1) we plan on addressing them by X date, with Y action; (2) we
don't think
this is a valid point *because* ..*explanation*; (3) you didn't consider
this factoid 
_here_, etc.

I'm hoping the other mentors on the project can step up and have some
insight
into the below. I look forward to the discussion.


Cheers,
Chris


-Original Message-
From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:12 AM
To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

 Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some
specific
 level of diversity, there is a requirement that the group demonstrate
 community building.

 I'm also sympathetic to this: you can see my thread here where
originally
 I didn't
 think much had been going on until I explicitly checked the lists and
went
 through
 the archives and saw ~7 IIRC PPMC members/committers added since
entering
 [1]. That's
 community building regardless of what affiliation those new members came
 from.

 The other metrics and statistics (health of the mailing lists/open
 discussions have
 been increasing; releases have been made, etc.) are all there and
outlined
 in [1].


As I read the private list, there has been absolutely no effort at adding
committers until last month when the topic of graduation has come up.
There
is no substantive discussion on the list of the potential committers, but
simply rather perfunctory +1 votes.

In reading the thread about whether there should be/is a diversity
requirement, I come to a bit of a different conclusion as well.  What I
see
in the discussion is that the participants seem to agree that

- there should not be a simple count-based diversity measure because this
would dissuade valuable commercial contributions

- the chance/likelihood of project failure due to a dominant commercial
contributor pulling out should not be considered since project dormancy or
retirement isn't a bad thing.  Better to try and fail than never try.

- there is clear recognition of the risk of commercial companies inventing
a project not so much because of a desire to build community but rather as
a marketing maneuver.

- there is no mention of the problems that have arisen in the Hadoop
groups
relative to use of groups and Apache trademarks for marketing purposes.

I don't want to impute motives to actions since I cannot know what others
hold in their hearts, but I don't see evidence of efforts to really build
the community.  There was one meat-space meetup a year ago.  There have
been a few presentations of what Tez is.

I do see a fair number of public statements of the form Tez is
Hortonworks
answer to Impala or The future of Hadoop runs on Tez, most of which
seem
to come out of Hortonworks' marketing department.

In looking at the dev list back to September of last year, I see a large
number of procedural messages (votes, results, release mechanics), a few
user questions (NPE in such and so, how do I install) and very few design
discussions.  There was one thread last November about combiners, another
in January about map parallelism, and one more in March about reducer
parallelism.  To me this looks a lot like a project where all design
discussions are occurring off-list.

What I would like to see would include

- a strong effort on the part of Tez to bring all design and
implementation
discussions to the list,

- continuous community engagement efforts such as weekly hangouts in
different timezones to help new contributors understand what is happening
technically in the project in an interactive setting

- lots of public talks focussed on how outsiders can contribute and how
the
design works

- cross posting on related projects offering cross pollination
opportunities.  Such related groups might be Drill, Optiq, Tajo and Spark.
 These postings would say things like how could you guys help us with
Tez
or Tez has this and such, would that be helpful to you guys.

- inviting contributors from related projects to give technical
presentations in the context of Tez

Now, my searches have been fairly cursory and could have missed important
activities, but I have a bit of a hard time believing that I have missed
major efforts along these lines.

Based on this evidence, it really does look to me like Tez is a purely
commercial development masquerading as an Apache community.

I agree that superficial diversity metrics are counter

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Ted Dunning
Let me repeat that my desired outcome here is Tez graduation.

It is just that I want to see Tez graduate as a viable project.




On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

 Thanks Ted, these are all important points that require responses. I have
 CC'ed the dev@tez.i.a.o
 list, where I hope the Tez community can respond to your points below in
 detail.

 Guys, please see Ted's comments below and please try to address them in
 light of the

 recent [DISCUSS] Graduation thread I raised. It's fine if the answer to
 some of the
 points is (1) we plan on addressing them by X date, with Y action; (2) we
 don't think
 this is a valid point *because* ..*explanation*; (3) you didn't consider
 this factoid
 _here_, etc.

 I'm hoping the other mentors on the project can step up and have some
 insight
 into the below. I look forward to the discussion.


 Cheers,
 Chris


 -Original Message-
 From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:12 AM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

 On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
  Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some
 specific
  level of diversity, there is a requirement that the group demonstrate
  community building.
 
  I'm also sympathetic to this: you can see my thread here where
 originally
  I didn't
  think much had been going on until I explicitly checked the lists and
 went
  through
  the archives and saw ~7 IIRC PPMC members/committers added since
 entering
  [1]. That's
  community building regardless of what affiliation those new members came
  from.
 
  The other metrics and statistics (health of the mailing lists/open
  discussions have
  been increasing; releases have been made, etc.) are all there and
 outlined
  in [1].
 
 
 As I read the private list, there has been absolutely no effort at adding
 committers until last month when the topic of graduation has come up.
 There
 is no substantive discussion on the list of the potential committers, but
 simply rather perfunctory +1 votes.
 
 In reading the thread about whether there should be/is a diversity
 requirement, I come to a bit of a different conclusion as well.  What I
 see
 in the discussion is that the participants seem to agree that
 
 - there should not be a simple count-based diversity measure because this
 would dissuade valuable commercial contributions
 
 - the chance/likelihood of project failure due to a dominant commercial
 contributor pulling out should not be considered since project dormancy or
 retirement isn't a bad thing.  Better to try and fail than never try.
 
 - there is clear recognition of the risk of commercial companies inventing
 a project not so much because of a desire to build community but rather as
 a marketing maneuver.
 
 - there is no mention of the problems that have arisen in the Hadoop
 groups
 relative to use of groups and Apache trademarks for marketing purposes.
 
 I don't want to impute motives to actions since I cannot know what others
 hold in their hearts, but I don't see evidence of efforts to really build
 the community.  There was one meat-space meetup a year ago.  There have
 been a few presentations of what Tez is.
 
 I do see a fair number of public statements of the form Tez is
 Hortonworks
 answer to Impala or The future of Hadoop runs on Tez, most of which
 seem
 to come out of Hortonworks' marketing department.
 
 In looking at the dev list back to September of last year, I see a large
 number of procedural messages (votes, results, release mechanics), a few
 user questions (NPE in such and so, how do I install) and very few design
 discussions.  There was one thread last November about combiners, another
 in January about map parallelism, and one more in March about reducer
 parallelism.  To me this looks a lot like a project where all design
 discussions are occurring off-list.
 
 What I would like to see would include
 
 - a strong effort on the part of Tez to bring all design and
 implementation
 discussions to the list,
 
 - continuous community engagement efforts such as weekly hangouts in
 different timezones to help new contributors understand what is happening
 technically in the project in an interactive setting
 
 - lots of public talks focussed on how outsiders can contribute and how
 the
 design works
 
 - cross posting on related projects offering cross pollination
 opportunities.  Such related groups might be Drill, Optiq, Tajo and Spark.
  These postings would say things like how could you guys help us with
 Tez
 or Tez has this and such, would that be helpful to you guys.
 
 - inviting contributors from related projects to give technical
 presentations in the context of Tez
 
 Now, my searches have

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Hi Ted,

Thanks. One thing after doing some of my own digging:

TEZ has a large JIRA repository and apparently a lot of the work is going
on there:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ-1218?jql=project%20%3D%20TEZ


Over 1200 issues to that tune as well.
This is validated by the following mail lists:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-tez-issues/


So looks like a *lot* of the development is occurring on list.

I'm hoping others in the Tez community can step up and also provide
similar data and factoids.

Cheers,
Chris






-Original Message-
From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:50 AM
To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: d...@tez.incubator.apache.org d...@tez.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

Let me repeat that my desired outcome here is Tez graduation.

It is just that I want to see Tez graduate as a viable project.




On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

 Thanks Ted, these are all important points that require responses. I
have
 CC'ed the dev@tez.i.a.o
 list, where I hope the Tez community can respond to your points below in
 detail.

 Guys, please see Ted's comments below and please try to address them in
 light of the

 recent [DISCUSS] Graduation thread I raised. It's fine if the answer to
 some of the
 points is (1) we plan on addressing them by X date, with Y action; (2)
we
 don't think
 this is a valid point *because* ..*explanation*; (3) you didn't consider
 this factoid
 _here_, etc.

 I'm hoping the other mentors on the project can step up and have some
 insight
 into the below. I look forward to the discussion.


 Cheers,
 Chris


 -Original Message-
 From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:12 AM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

 On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
  Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some
 specific
  level of diversity, there is a requirement that the group
demonstrate
  community building.
 
  I'm also sympathetic to this: you can see my thread here where
 originally
  I didn't
  think much had been going on until I explicitly checked the lists and
 went
  through
  the archives and saw ~7 IIRC PPMC members/committers added since
 entering
  [1]. That's
  community building regardless of what affiliation those new members
came
  from.
 
  The other metrics and statistics (health of the mailing lists/open
  discussions have
  been increasing; releases have been made, etc.) are all there and
 outlined
  in [1].
 
 
 As I read the private list, there has been absolutely no effort at
adding
 committers until last month when the topic of graduation has come up.
 There
 is no substantive discussion on the list of the potential committers,
but
 simply rather perfunctory +1 votes.
 
 In reading the thread about whether there should be/is a diversity
 requirement, I come to a bit of a different conclusion as well.  What I
 see
 in the discussion is that the participants seem to agree that
 
 - there should not be a simple count-based diversity measure because
this
 would dissuade valuable commercial contributions
 
 - the chance/likelihood of project failure due to a dominant commercial
 contributor pulling out should not be considered since project
dormancy or
 retirement isn't a bad thing.  Better to try and fail than never try.
 
 - there is clear recognition of the risk of commercial companies
inventing
 a project not so much because of a desire to build community but
rather as
 a marketing maneuver.
 
 - there is no mention of the problems that have arisen in the Hadoop
 groups
 relative to use of groups and Apache trademarks for marketing purposes.
 
 I don't want to impute motives to actions since I cannot know what
others
 hold in their hearts, but I don't see evidence of efforts to really
build
 the community.  There was one meat-space meetup a year ago.  There have
 been a few presentations of what Tez is.
 
 I do see a fair number of public statements of the form Tez is
 Hortonworks
 answer to Impala or The future of Hadoop runs on Tez, most of which
 seem
 to come out of Hortonworks' marketing department.
 
 In looking at the dev list back to September of last year, I see a
large
 number of procedural messages (votes, results, release mechanics), a
few
 user questions (NPE in such and so, how do I install) and very few
design
 discussions.  There was one thread last November about combiners,
another
 in January about map parallelism, and one more in March about reducer
 parallelism.  To me this looks a lot like

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Hitesh Shah
Hi folks, 

To be very clear, the project's source of truth has always been its status 
file: 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/content/projects/tez.xml

For the tez website, http://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html, the onus 
was for the committers to test out their commit privileges, update the teamlist 
in the source tree and publish the updated website. I understand it has created 
a lot of confusion for folks outside of the project. I will go ahead and update 
the internal list to match the source of truth.

Even though I am well aware that some of the initial committers on the 
incubator proposal have not been active ( my take on active is as simple as 
sending a single mail to any mailing list ) on the project since inception, my 
understanding had been that all committers and mentors from an incubator 
podling become PMC for the top level project when it graduates. Is my 
understanding incorrect? In any case, to directly address the diversity 
question, I believe the PMC would have members from companies such as 
Hortonworks, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter to name a few.

As for our community, we have had multiple talks and meetups both on Tez alone 
as well as ones with the folks from Hive and Pig. 
  - http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Tez-User-Group. The only meetup we have had 
till date had a detailed talk on Tez in addition to presentations from folks 
from Hive and Pig on how they were using or planning to use Tez.
  - There was a whole evening devoted to Tez and applications on Tez as part of 
the Bay Area Hadoop User Group - http://www.meetup.com/hadoop/events/116895522/
  - Talks - there have been quite a few talks on it over the past year. For 
example, one can look at the recently completed Hadoop Summit in San Jose and 
search for Tez related talks of which only one talk was just about Tez and the 
others about applications built on top of it.

We have been working with the Hive and Pig folks mostly via JIRA to address 
their requirements as they built out their platforms to work on Tez. One can 
look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4660 and 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3446 to see the considerable amount 
of work both these communities have put in to get their respective applications 
to work on top of Tez. Most of the interaction has been on JIRA and not really 
on the dev mailing lists. Most design discussions also tend to happen there. 
Subscribing to issues@ might give one a better perspective on community 
interaction.

To be frank, the Tez community for the past year has been working towards 
helping make Apache Hive and Apache Pig faster. As the platform evolves and 
grows, other applications such as Flink are considering it too. Hopefully, at 
some point down the line, we would like to work with the MapReduce community to 
have them consider using Tez. 

thanks
— Hitesh

On Jun 23, 2014, at 12:50 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Let me repeat that my desired outcome here is Tez graduation.
 
 It is just that I want to see Tez graduate as a viable project.
 
 
 
 
 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 Thanks Ted, these are all important points that require responses. I have
 CC'ed the dev@tez.i.a.o
 list, where I hope the Tez community can respond to your points below in
 detail.
 
 Guys, please see Ted's comments below and please try to address them in
 light of the
 
 recent [DISCUSS] Graduation thread I raised. It's fine if the answer to
 some of the
 points is (1) we plan on addressing them by X date, with Y action; (2) we
 don't think
 this is a valid point *because* ..*explanation*; (3) you didn't consider
 this factoid
 _here_, etc.
 
 I'm hoping the other mentors on the project can step up and have some
 insight
 into the below. I look forward to the discussion.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Chris
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:12 AM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]
 
 On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some
 specific
 level of diversity, there is a requirement that the group demonstrate
 community building.
 
 I'm also sympathetic to this: you can see my thread here where
 originally
 I didn't
 think much had been going on until I explicitly checked the lists and
 went
 through
 the archives and saw ~7 IIRC PPMC members/committers added since
 entering
 [1]. That's
 community building regardless of what affiliation those new members came
 from.
 
 The other metrics and statistics (health of the mailing lists/open
 discussions have
 been increasing; releases have been made, etc.) are all

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Thanks Hitesh, this is great data too. I also found the issues list
to be a gold source of conversation.

I'll now wait to see what Ted thinks, but as far as I'm concerned you
guys are moving in the direction I suspected (graduation) based on my
admittedly limited searching of mail archives and basic metrics done
the other day.

I'll wait on this for a few days and let the conversation develop.
This is the great thing about a DISCUSS thread - discussion happens! :)

Cheers,
Chris

++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov
WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
++






-Original Message-
From: Hitesh Shah hit...@apache.org
Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 1:20 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: d...@tez.incubator.apache.org d...@tez.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

Hi folks, 

To be very clear, the project's source of truth has always been its
status file: 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/content/projects/t
ez.xml

For the tez website, http://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html, the
onus was for the committers to test out their commit privileges, update
the teamlist in the source tree and publish the updated website. I
understand it has created a lot of confusion for folks outside of the
project. I will go ahead and update the internal list to match the source
of truth.

Even though I am well aware that some of the initial committers on the
incubator proposal have not been active ( my take on active is as simple
as sending a single mail to any mailing list ) on the project since
inception, my understanding had been that all committers and mentors from
an incubator podling become PMC for the top level project when it
graduates. Is my understanding incorrect? In any case, to directly
address the diversity question, I believe the PMC would have members from
companies such as Hortonworks, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter to name a few.

As for our community, we have had multiple talks and meetups both on Tez
alone as well as ones with the folks from Hive and Pig.
  - http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Tez-User-Group. The only meetup we have
had till date had a detailed talk on Tez in addition to presentations
from folks from Hive and Pig on how they were using or planning to use
Tez.
  - There was a whole evening devoted to Tez and applications on Tez as
part of the Bay Area Hadoop User Group -
http://www.meetup.com/hadoop/events/116895522/
  - Talks - there have been quite a few talks on it over the past year.
For example, one can look at the recently completed Hadoop Summit in San
Jose and search for Tez related talks of which only one talk was just
about Tez and the others about applications built on top of it.

We have been working with the Hive and Pig folks mostly via JIRA to
address their requirements as they built out their platforms to work on
Tez. One can look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4660 and
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3446 to see the considerable
amount of work both these communities have put in to get their respective
applications to work on top of Tez. Most of the interaction has been on
JIRA and not really on the dev mailing lists. Most design discussions
also tend to happen there. Subscribing to issues@ might give one a better
perspective on community interaction.

To be frank, the Tez community for the past year has been working towards
helping make Apache Hive and Apache Pig faster. As the platform evolves
and grows, other applications such as Flink are considering it too.
Hopefully, at some point down the line, we would like to work with the
MapReduce community to have them consider using Tez.

thanks
‹ Hitesh

On Jun 23, 2014, at 12:50 AM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Let me repeat that my desired outcome here is Tez graduation.
 
 It is just that I want to see Tez graduate as a viable project.
 
 
 
 
 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 Thanks Ted, these are all important points that require responses. I
have
 CC'ed the dev@tez.i.a.o
 list, where I hope the Tez community can respond to your points below
in
 detail.
 
 Guys, please see Ted's comments below and please try to address them in
 light of the
 
 recent [DISCUSS] Graduation thread I raised. It's fine if the answer to
 some of the
 points is (1) we plan

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Ted Dunning
I will look as soon as possible. I am on a trip right now and am occupied with 
day job stuff 12 hours a day. 

If you don't hear from me in a short time, move forward based in your best 
judgment.  I trust the group to consider my impressions and to think about what 
merit they may (or may not) have. 

Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 23, 2014, at 23:27, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 
 I'll now wait to see what Ted thinks, but as far as I'm concerned you
 guys are moving in the direction I suspected (graduation) based on my
 admittedly limited searching of mail archives and basic metrics done
 the other day.

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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Thanks Ted, appreciate it and we will make sure to address your comments
and sincerely appreciate the time you took to type your replies and
do your research. It will no doubt help the community and thank you again.


++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov
WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
++






-Original Message-
From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 1:39 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: d...@tez.incubator.apache.org d...@tez.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

I will look as soon as possible. I am on a trip right now and am occupied
with day job stuff 12 hours a day.

If you don't hear from me in a short time, move forward based in your
best judgment.  I trust the group to consider my impressions and to think
about what merit they may (or may not) have.

Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 23, 2014, at 23:27, Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 
 I'll now wait to see what Ted thinks, but as far as I'm concerned you
 guys are moving in the direction I suspected (graduation) based on my
 admittedly limited searching of mail archives and basic metrics done
 the other day.

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RE: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Bikas Saha
Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord.
Members can only make efforts to evangelize the project and support the
initial users of the project by answering questions and helping them out.
We have tried do our part as the initial members of the community and we
think that we have been reasonably successful towards our goals - given
the complex technical nature of the project itself.

The beginnings of community building come from being open. When the
project was still new it was important that people understand the
motivations for the project and the core technical architecture of the
code that seeded the project. In order to do that we published a series of
deep technical blogs that describe the project and its technical
architecture. http://goo.gl/sQ1QZb. There was considerable favorable
reception about the quality of this series and brought a lot of mindshare
to the project.

Next we have spoken at a number of forums about Apache Tez. Here are the
presentations that come to mind.
1) Hadoop Summit San Jose 2013
2) Hadoop Summit Amsterdam 2014
3) Beijing Big Data Technology Conference 2013
4) Bay Area Hadoop User Group 2014
5) Los Angeles Hadoop User Group 2013
6) Big Data Camp LA 2014
7) Seattle Scalability Meetup 2014
8) New York Hadoop User Group 2014
9) Hadoop Summit San Jose 2014
10) QConf San Francisco Conference 2013
11) Discovery 2020 Workshop at LBNL Berkeley
12) Big Data Gurus Meetup 2014
13) Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Meetup 2014
14) Presentation at MapR HQ on Apache Tez

The community outreach events have been spread over time and geography and
should represent substantial effort towards community building. Here is an
example of the presentations we have made. http://goo.gl/BL67o7. More than
10 out of 48 slides are specifically there to motivate people to try out
and dig deeper with Apache Tez because the main aim of these presentations
is community outreach.

The email lists are a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Initial
questions are around simpler things like installation etc. But as people
start getting deeper they start asking more technical questions and then
start contributing to the project itself. Off-late there have been much
more interesting questions around scheduling and control plane events and
it reflects increasing usage and interest in the project.

We should also look at the response times for emails on those lists.
Almost all emails get answered within 1 day and most within 1 hour. We are
a small community with strong motivation to increase our community of
users and developers by addressing their roadblocks as soon as we can.

Aside from dev mailing lists, the other measure of interaction is on the
Apache Tez jira itself. Out of the 1200 jiras opened under the Apache Tez
project about 200 have been created by non-committer community members.

Another take on community building is how other community projects are
interacting with Apache Tez. We have strong adoption from Apache Pig and
Apache Hive. The Apache Pig effort has been an excellent example of cross
company collaboration done under the Apache umbrella with members from
Yahoo, LinkedIn, Netflix and Hortonworks. Apache Flink is a new incubator
project that is experimenting with integrating with Tez and shows a
positive outcome of the community outreach efforts. Adoption creates the
greatest support for project sustainability because the adopters have
interest in making sure that the project stays alive and continues to meet
their needs.
As an example of the interest shown by Apache Hive and Apache Pig in Tez
there have been multiple public talks by members of those communities
about how they have integrated with success with Apache Tez.
1) Bay Area Hadoop User Group 2014 (both Hive and Pig)
2) Hadoop Summit San Jose 2014 (both Hive and Pig)

Over the last few months we have been receiving active contributions in
quality and volume that enabled us to add a number of new committers.
Since their contributions were fairly obvious because of their
interactions with existing committers on the jiras, there wasn't much
discussion on the vote thread itself.

Finally, our 0.5 release is targeting community adoption and user adoption
by considerably simplifying the API for the project because we have
received feedback of that area being the specially challenging for
newcomers.

I hope these examples will help allay any doubts about the efforts and
success at building out the community around Apache Tez.

Thanks
Bikas


-Original Message-
From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 1:46 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: d...@tez.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

Thanks Ted, appreciate it and we will make sure to address your comments
and sincerely appreciate the time you took to type your replies and do
your research. It will no doubt help the community and thank you

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bikas Saha bi...@hortonworks.com wrote:

 Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord.


Really, I was going to run away for a bit, but my feeling is that this
statement is amazingly naive about how communities are built.

Community doesn't just happen.  Community doesn't just grow of its own
accord.  Community grows when people make serious, explicit actions to help
it grow, to bring in newcomers, to publish plans in many places *before*
code is written.

Building community is hard work that you have to intend to do.  If you
don't do the work, it won't just happen any more than code writes itself.


RE: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Bikas Saha
I think we are on the same page here about working hard to build the
community. We need to work hard to make the community grow. I was merely
saying that how that effort converts into adoption is not something that can
be predicted. I hope that clarifies. Always looking for guidance to make the
most out of our efforts at community building and ways we can improve.

I hope the information provided in this thread helps display that we are
working hard and committed to building a vibrant Apache Tez community.

Thanks
Bikas

-Original Message-
From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 2:41 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: d...@tez.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bikas Saha bi...@hortonworks.com wrote:

 Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord.


Really, I was going to run away for a bit, but my feeling is that this
statement is amazingly naive about how communities are built.

Community doesn't just happen.  Community doesn't just grow of its own
accord.  Community grows when people make serious, explicit actions to help
it grow, to bring in newcomers, to publish plans in many places *before*
code is written.

Building community is hard work that you have to intend to do.  If you don't
do the work, it won't just happen any more than code writes itself.

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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bikas Saha bi...@hortonworks.com wrote:

 Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord.


 Really, I was going to run away for a bit, but my feeling is that this
 statement is amazingly naive about how communities are built.

 Community doesn't just happen.  Community doesn't just grow of its own
 accord.  Community grows when people make serious, explicit actions to help
 it grow, to bring in newcomers, to publish plans in many places *before*
 code is written.

 Building community is hard work that you have to intend to do.  If you
 don't do the work, it won't just happen any more than code writes itself.\

+infinity to that!

And in fact, I think this is the crux of this very discussion: as part
of the graduation criteria an incubating project needs to demonstrate
that they have understood and mastered that art.  At the end of the
day the passing grade for incubating is based on that very criteria:
can a project demonstrate that if allowed to the TLP status it will
not let its community wane.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
I see two threads here
 - Concerns about graduation of Apache Tez project w.r.t diversity based on the 
PPMC html page
 - Community related threads about things like whether diversity is a hard 
requirement or how to grow communities.

AFAICT, Hitesh's latest information on the state of the members of the team 
(and the updated page) should allay any concerns on diversity.

If people disagree, we can continue this thread along that discussion. If not, 
we can close this topic as the graduation discussion/vote proceeds here and 
elsewhere.

The other threads may be valuable but OT IMHO and so are better forked into 
their own threads.

Thanks,
+Vinod

On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bikas Saha bi...@hortonworks.com wrote:
 
 Community building is an organic process that grows on its own accord.
 
 
 Really, I was going to run away for a bit, but my feeling is that this
 statement is amazingly naive about how communities are built.
 
 Community doesn't just happen.  Community doesn't just grow of its own
 accord.  Community grows when people make serious, explicit actions to help
 it grow, to bring in newcomers, to publish plans in many places *before*
 code is written.
 
 Building community is hard work that you have to intend to do.  If you
 don't do the work, it won't just happen any more than code writes itself.\
 
 +infinity to that!
 
 And in fact, I think this is the crux of this very discussion: as part
 of the graduation criteria an incubating project needs to demonstrate
 that they have understood and mastered that art.  At the end of the
 day the passing grade for incubating is based on that very criteria:
 can a project demonstrate that if allowed to the TLP status it will
 not let its community wane.
 
 Thanks,
 Roman.
 
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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
vino...@apache.org wrote:
 I see two threads here
  - Concerns about graduation of Apache Tez project w.r.t diversity based on 
 the PPMC html page
  - Community related threads about things like whether diversity is a hard 
 requirement or how
 to grow communities.

 AFAICT, Hitesh's latest information on the state of the members of the team
 (and the updated page) should allay any concerns on diversity.

 If people disagree, we can continue this thread along that discussion. If 
 not, we can close this topic as the graduation discussion/vote proceeds here 
 and elsewhere.

 The other threads may be valuable but OT IMHO and so are better forked into 
 their own threads.

I personally think both are very closely related. Like I said, to
me the diversity thread is really in support of the thesis that
the project is capable of growing a community outside of
a forcing function of a single employer.

That said, I haven't done the due diligence to form my personal
opinion one way or another. I am going to do it this week.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-23 Thread Rohini Palaniswamy
I will add my two cents in here on the diversity front as a member of the
Pig team which has been working closely with Tez team for the past 3
quarters.

 There has been a whole lot of features and design changes done in Tez
driven by requirements from Pig and it has been a pleasure working with the
Tez community. We have had a really good collaboration and development has
happened at a really really fast pace both in Pig and Tez, with Pig team
picking features from Tez snapshot builds as and when they are fixed. We
just merged Pig on Tez branch into Pig trunk last month. Most of the
collaboration has been through jiras and you can see a lot of linked Pig
jiras. Pig on Tez is especially a cross-company team effort in Apache -
Yahoo!, Hortonworks, Netflix and LinkedIn and many of the requirements and
fixes on Tez has been driven by the security, performance and large scale
needs of these companies. http://tinyurl.com/m5tbzxt is the list of Tez
jiras created just by the Pig team (48 jiras). There were at least quite a
few more created by others when we reported issues in mails.

 Hive of course is the other big project and Cascading is also into the mix
now. With all the widely adopted analytics tools on top of Hadoop adding
support for it and many companies adopting it there is very good future for
Tez and I think it is just prejudice to call it as a commercial development
masquerading as an Apache community. We really see it as a replacement for
mapreduce in the near term and pleased with the current results and the
future potential as a user and have been investing in the development of
Tez as well with dedicated resources. We opened Pig and Hive on Tez for
testing for users in Yahoo! in Apr and Cheolsoo opened up Pig on Tez for
users in Netflix this month and both Netflix and Y! have plans to get it
into production by end of the year and Linkedin also hopes to do the same.
With this early adoption from some of the biggest users of hadoop, I am
sure Tez will only become more stable and mature in the coming year and
gain more traction and wider adoption with other users as well as more
companies migrate to Hadoop 2.

Regards,
Rohini


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
 vino...@apache.org wrote:
  I see two threads here
   - Concerns about graduation of Apache Tez project w.r.t diversity based
 on the PPMC html page
   - Community related threads about things like whether diversity is a
 hard requirement or how
  to grow communities.
 
  AFAICT, Hitesh's latest information on the state of the members of the
 team
  (and the updated page) should allay any concerns on diversity.
 
  If people disagree, we can continue this thread along that discussion.
 If not, we can close this topic as the graduation discussion/vote proceeds
 here and elsewhere.
 
  The other threads may be valuable but OT IMHO and so are better forked
 into their own threads.

 I personally think both are very closely related. Like I said, to
 me the diversity thread is really in support of the thesis that
 the project is capable of growing a community outside of
 a forcing function of a single employer.

 That said, I haven't done the due diligence to form my personal
 opinion one way or another. I am going to do it this week.

 Thanks,
 Roman.



Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-22 Thread Ted Dunning

Chris

Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some specific level 
of diversity, there is a requirement that the group demonstrate community 
building.  

The page in question may be incorrect, but as it stands it does not appear that 
a diverse community has been built. 

I am sympathetic to the encouragement of company participation, but I don't 
think that it serves apache to have projects that are effective stalking horses 
for what are effectively private communities. 

My sensitivity on this point is largely informed by the efforts we have made to 
build the drill community beyond the core team funded by MapR. I felt at the 
beginning of that project and still feel strongly that it is critical for a 
project to develop into a truly open community. Building a real community is 
hard work and it doesn't happen by accident, especially in a high pressure 
competitive environment.  My own opinion is that this effort is not optional. 

If the problem is simply an out of date web page and a good level of diversity 
exists, that would be an excellent outcome. If the web page is, however, 
accurate then I do see this as a problem that needs to e addressed.  


Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 22, 2014, at 8:31, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) 
 chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 Hi Guys,
 
 I will dig up the thread from Roy on this, but company-based diversity is
 not a graduation
 requirement. Basically the jist of it is that requiring such would
 discourage companies
 from specifically funding participation in a single open source project
 for fear of these
 types of constraints and we'd lose out on the contributions.
 
 Cheers,
 Chris
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:18 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]
 
 Looks like the page is not updated because the proposal mentions more
 diverse people [1]
 
 [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TezProposal
 
 On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org
 wrote:
 Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are
 wokring w/
 Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
 http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC
 composition
 which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
 affiliation. Given that this page
 https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
 is up to date.
 
 If I am reading 
 https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
 right, the PPMC and committers composition should be diversified. Is it
 a
 concern for graduation from the IPMC standpoint of view?
 
 Regards,
  Cos
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
 Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
 it'd certainly be appreciated. -C
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org
 wrote:
 I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is
 happening
 there really.
 
 If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help
 mentoring Tez.
 
 Cos
 
 
 On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
 I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
 as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
 help mentor the better.
 
 Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org
 general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
 On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra
 henry.sapu...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did
 not even
 monitor it anymore
 
 I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for
 folks
 to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
 different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
 
 I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come
 from
 somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
 details.
 
 Thanks,
 Roman.
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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-22 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Hi Ted,

-Original Message-

From: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com
Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014 6:36 AM
To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]


Chris

Regardless of whether it is an explicit requirement to have some specific
level of diversity, there is a requirement that the group demonstrate
community building.

I'm also sympathetic to this: you can see my thread here where originally
I didn't
think much had been going on until I explicitly checked the lists and went
through
the archives and saw ~7 IIRC PPMC members/committers added since entering
[1]. That's
community building regardless of what affiliation those new members came
from.

The other metrics and statistics (health of the mailing lists/open
discussions have
been increasing; releases have been made, etc.) are all there and outlined
in [1].

  

The page in question may be incorrect, but as it stands it does not
appear that a diverse community has been built.

Having a diverse community is important and something that the project
should continue
to strive for. I agree at the end of day it's something that the project
needs to achieve
if they want to be resilient against any one company pulling out all of
its support/developers.
But it's something they need to *achieve* over the long run and it's not
an explicit requirement
for graduation as pointed out by Roy. Here's the relevant thread [2].

 

I am sympathetic to the encouragement of company participation, but I
don't think that it serves apache to have projects that are effective
stalking horses for what are effectively private communities.

I agree Ted - again, my perception of Tez recently was the same until I
took the time
to walk through the archives and look at the positive direction where a
number of the
exit criteria for the Incubator were being met. [1] outlines my own
research into
this. If you have specific qualms that you can point to data on, I'm all
ears. But
my own research into the area, along with Chris Douglas's original prompt
that he 
felt Tez was ready (and I trust ChrisD - yes it's a matter of trust) makes
me think
they are ready. There are ASF members on the committee including Arun and
ChrisD, so
that's a good sign that the intent is there for me and there are folks
watching over
the community to make sure it's growing in the ASF way.

 

My sensitivity on this point is largely informed by the efforts we have
made to build the drill community beyond the core team funded by MapR. I
felt at the beginning of that project and still feel strongly that it is
critical for a project to develop into a truly open community. Building a
real community is hard work and it doesn't happen by accident, especially
in a high pressure competitive environment.  My own opinion is that this
effort is not optional.

I applaud you on Drill - I have the same philosophy in my own projects.

 

If the problem is simply an out of date web page and a good level of
diversity exists, that would be an excellent outcome. If the web page is,
however, accurate then I do see this as a problem that needs to e
addressed.  

See above as well as Roy's email and let me know what you think. I
appreciate and
value your opinion and we should figure out how to best address your
concerns.

Cheers,
Chris


[1] http://s.apache.org/tCN
[2] http://markmail.org/message/w56cmyri4osgcgud




Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 22, 2014, at 8:31, Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
 
 Hi Guys,
 
 I will dig up the thread from Roy on this, but company-based diversity
is
 not a graduation
 requirement. Basically the jist of it is that requiring such would
 discourage companies
 from specifically funding participation in a single open source project
 for fear of these
 types of constraints and we'd lose out on the contributions.
 
 Cheers,
 Chris
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:18 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]
 
 Looks like the page is not updated because the proposal mentions more
 diverse people [1]
 
 [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TezProposal
 
 On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org
 wrote:
 Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are
 wokring w/
 Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
 http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC
 composition
 which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
 affiliation. Given that this page
 https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
 is up to date.
 
 If I am reading
 https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html

Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-21 Thread Henry Saputra
Looks like the page is not updated because the proposal mentions more
diverse people [1]

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TezProposal

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:
 Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are wokring w/
 Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
 http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC composition
 which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
 affiliation. Given that this page 
 https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
 is up to date.

 If I am reading https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
 right, the PPMC and committers composition should be diversified. Is it a
 concern for graduation from the IPMC standpoint of view?

 Regards,
   Cos

 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
 Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
 it'd certainly be appreciated. -C

 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:
  I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is 
  happening
  there really.
 
  If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help mentoring 
  Tez.
 
  Cos
 
 
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
  I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
  as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
  help mentor the better.
 
  Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
  Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
  To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
  On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
  wrote:
   Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
   monitor it anymore
  
  I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
  to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
  different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
  
  I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
  somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
  details.
  
  Thanks,
  Roman.
  
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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-21 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Hi Guys,

I will dig up the thread from Roy on this, but company-based diversity is
not a graduation
requirement. Basically the jist of it is that requiring such would
discourage companies
from specifically funding participation in a single open source project
for fear of these
types of constraints and we'd lose out on the contributions.

Cheers,
Chris




-Original Message-
From: Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:18 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

Looks like the page is not updated because the proposal mentions more
diverse people [1]

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TezProposal

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org
wrote:
 Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are
wokring w/
 Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
 http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC
composition
 which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
 affiliation. Given that this page
https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
 is up to date.

 If I am reading 
https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
 right, the PPMC and committers composition should be diversified. Is it
a
 concern for graduation from the IPMC standpoint of view?

 Regards,
   Cos

 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
 Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
 it'd certainly be appreciated. -C

 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org
wrote:
  I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is
happening
  there really.
 
  If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help
mentoring Tez.
 
  Cos
 
 
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
  I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
  as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
  help mentor the better.
 
  Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
  Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org
general@incubator.apache.org
  Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
  To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
  On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra
henry.sapu...@gmail.com
  wrote:
   Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did
not even
   monitor it anymore
  
  I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for
folks
  to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
  different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
  
  I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come
from
  somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
  details.
  
  Thanks,
  Roman.
  
  
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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-21 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli

It looks like this page was indeed not up to date as I heard that it was up to 
the individual committers involved to add themselves to that page and some or 
more of them didn't do it. If there is a way to figure out the official list 
instead of depending on this page, that should address some concerns. In the 
mean while, one of us can tip them off to get the page updated.

Thanks
+Vinod

On Jun 21, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Looks like the page is not updated because the proposal mentions more
 diverse people [1]
 
 [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TezProposal
 
 On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:
 Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are wokring w/
 Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
 http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC 
 composition
 which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
 affiliation. Given that this page 
 https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
 is up to date.
 
 If I am reading https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
 right, the PPMC and committers composition should be diversified. Is it a
 concern for graduation from the IPMC standpoint of view?
 
 Regards,
  Cos
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
 Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
 it'd certainly be appreciated. -C
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org 
 wrote:
 I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is 
 happening
 there really.
 
 If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help mentoring 
 Tez.
 
 Cos
 
 
 On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
 I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
 as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
 help mentor the better.
 
 Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
 On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
 monitor it anymore
 
 I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
 to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
 different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
 
 I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
 somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
 details.
 
 Thanks,
 Roman.
 
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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-20 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are wokring w/
Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC composition
which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
affiliation. Given that this page 
https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
is up to date.

If I am reading https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
right, the PPMC and committers composition should be diversified. Is it a
concern for graduation from the IPMC standpoint of view?

Regards,
  Cos

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
 Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
 it'd certainly be appreciated. -C
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:
  I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is happening
  there really.
 
  If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help mentoring 
  Tez.
 
  Cos
 
 
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
  I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
  as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
  help mentor the better.
 
  Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
  Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
  To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
  On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
  wrote:
   Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
   monitor it anymore
  
  I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
  to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
  different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
  
  I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
  somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
  details.
  
  Thanks,
  Roman.
  
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Re: Tez graduation [Was: Request for mentor assessment]

2014-06-20 Thread Ted Dunning
I think that this is a serious problem for Tez graduation.  So far, Tez has
been essentially a one-company show and essentially all of the participants
are there because of their day jobs.

It doesn't seem like it has to be that way, but it also doesn't seem like
there are organic drives to push it a different direction.




On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:

 Ok, I've reached out to the Tez project and it seems that they are wokring
 w/
 Chris Mattmann's on the graduation process (per an email exchange
 http://s.apache.org/K7g). What has caught my attention is the PPMC
 composition
 which is pretty much uniformly represented by a group with the same
 affiliation. Given that this page
 https://tez.incubator.apache.org/team-list.html
 is up to date.

 If I am reading
 https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
 right, the PPMC and committers composition should be diversified. Is it a
 concern for graduation from the IPMC standpoint of view?

 Regards,
   Cos

 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
  Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
  it'd certainly be appreciated. -C
 
  On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org
 wrote:
   I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is
 happening
   there really.
  
   If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help
 mentoring Tez.
  
   Cos
  
  
   On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
   I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
   as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
   help mentor the better.
  
   Good job starting this thread, Roman.
  
  
  
  
  
  
   -Original Message-
   From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
   Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org 
 general@incubator.apache.org
   Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
   To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
   Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
  
   On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra 
 henry.sapu...@gmail.com
   wrote:
Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not
 even
monitor it anymore
   
   I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for
 folks
   to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
   different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
   
   I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
   somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
   details.
   
   Thanks,
   Roman.
   
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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-18 Thread Christian Grobmeier

On 16 Jun 2014, at 21:56, Konstantin Boudnik wrote:

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:31PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:

On 06/12/2014 07:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
This suggests that ASF is being used as a GitHub of sorts. Are we 
comfortable

with this?


It's not really like GitHub. There is a community, at least a few 
people.
It's definitely not about the cool tools, otherwise they would have gone 
to GitHub.
We asked them recently, they declined and wanted to stay as they feel 
the ASF is the right place (see dev@ for reference)


Speaking for myself, no. I'd be uncomfortable having a specific 
deadline

for graduation, but a podling that's not making progress towards
graduation (in general, not pointing a finger specifically at Wave 
here)

should be terminated.


For what it worth, I think you're right: a permanent incubator project 
doesn't

make sense. For once, there's a lot of people mechanics involved into
podlings' mentoring, reporting, etc. And it doesn't feel exactly right 
to

forever handhold something that doesn't have an intention to evolve.


The have the intention, but not the man power.
There were phases with some excitement.

If the IPMC wants to shut down the podling, then I would like to see us
formulating a few rules when we do that. We should not shut a podling
down just because we feel like that. Instead let us define what it means
to evolve or what the intention to evolve means.

Like:

 - no new committer for a year
 - AND no release for a year
 - AND less than 20 emails in a month on dev@
 - AND less than 10 commits in a month
 - AND no way to change this in the next three months (in example: 
hackathon on horizon)


(according to this, Wave would go to attic)

Cheers,
Christian





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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Christian Grobmeier
grobme...@gmail.com wrote:
  - no new committer for a year
  - AND no release for a year
  - AND less than 20 emails in a month on dev@
  - AND less than 10 commits in a month
  - AND no way to change this in the next three months (in example: hackathon
 on horizon)

That is completely fair. In fact [as I promised last week]
I am about to start a DISCUSS thread with amendments
to our Incubation policy outlining these very criteria.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-17 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Sure Chris.

I'll send an email to dev@ list offering help.

Cos

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:54PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
 Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
 it'd certainly be appreciated. -C
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:
  I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is happening
  there really.
 
  If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help mentoring 
  Tez.
 
  Cos
 
 
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
  I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
  as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
  help mentor the better.
 
  Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
  Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
  To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
  Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
  On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
  wrote:
   Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
   monitor it anymore
  
  I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
  to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
  different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
  
  I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
  somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
  details.
  
  Thanks,
  Roman.
  
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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-16 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Roman,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:
...
* DeviceMap has been in the incubator since
   2012-01-03. It seems like it is still struggling
   with the basics: producing releases and growing
   its PMC. What's the recommendation here?...

I agree with your view - as a mentor I see no urgency to shut the
project down, it's fairly different from other projects in that it
needs little code, the bulk of it is mobile device data. The (small)
community is still struggling to find good ways to allow people to
contribute that data, and if that happens the project could become
viable quickly.

My recommendation as a mentor is to give DeviceMap a bit more time to
give it a chance to setup that data contribution mechanism.

-Bertrand

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-16 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is happening
there really.

If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help mentoring Tez.

Cos


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
 I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
 as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
 help mentor the better.
 
 Good job starting this thread, Roman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org
 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment
 
 On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
  monitor it anymore
 
 I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
 to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
 different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
 
 I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
 somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
 details.
 
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 Roman.
 
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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-16 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:31PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
 On 06/12/2014 07:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
  This is one of the questions, I'd like to explore in greater details: are
  we comfortable with having professional student projects in the
  incubator?
 
 In response to the general question, it seems that professional
 student podlings are inconsistent with the idea that the Incubator is a
 process that should result in graduation or termination.
 
  In the case of Wave, it really strikes me as odd that the community is not
  capable of even a single release in more than 3.5 years:
 http://incubator.apache.org/wave/downloads.html
  
  This suggests that ASF is being used as a GitHub of sorts. Are we 
  comfortable
  with this?
 
 Speaking for myself, no. I'd be uncomfortable having a specific deadline
 for graduation, but a podling that's not making progress towards
 graduation (in general, not pointing a finger specifically at Wave here)
 should be terminated.

For what it worth, I think you're right: a permanent incubator project doesn't
make sense. For once, there's a lot of people mechanics involved into
podlings' mentoring, reporting, etc. And it doesn't feel exactly right to
forever handhold something that doesn't have an intention to evolve.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Douglas
Tez is ready to graduate. Cos, if you can help us manage that process,
it'd certainly be appreciated. -C

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Konstantin Boudnik c...@apache.org wrote:
 I share the sentiment with NPanday - doesn't seem like anything is happening
 there really.

 If it of an interest to the incubator, I will volunteer to help mentoring Tez.

 Cos


 On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:55AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
 I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
 as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
 help mentor the better.

 Good job starting this thread, Roman.






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 Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:44 PM
 To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment

 On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
  monitor it anymore
 
 I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
 to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
 different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.
 
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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-13 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi,

I pinged Kalumet on their dev list and they seem keep to continue.

Thanks,
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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I pinged Kalumet on their dev list and they seem keep to continue.

Hm. It would be useful if we could come up with concrete steps to move
this project in a particular direction. But even before that happens, I'd
like to make sure that there's at least one active mentor who can help
us help the podling. So far, not a single mentor reacted to the pinging
wrt. the status of the project.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote:
 On 06/12/2014 07:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 This is one of the questions, I'd like to explore in greater details: are
 we comfortable with having professional student projects in the
 incubator?

 In response to the general question, it seems that professional
 student podlings are inconsistent with the idea that the Incubator is a
 process that should result in graduation or termination.

Thanks for chiming in! This is exactly where I'm coming from as well.
I'll start a separate thread on trying to define some kind of criteria.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Upayavira
Roman,

Regarding Wave, this comes up periodically. The two mentors (myself and
Christian) are of the opinion that it sitting in the incubator is not
doing harm.

The project is definitely in need of new resource, and I wonder whether
it will gain the necessary, but up until now, those active devs have
wanted to stay here, and mentors have considered this acceptable.

Upayavira

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 Hi!
 
 I would like to kindly request some assistance
 from the mentors of the following projects: devicemap,
 kalumet, s4, wave and npanday (all CCed).
 
 I would like to figure out whether the concerns I have
 for these projects are justified and if they are, what
 would be the proposed steps for the IPMC.
 
 To be more specific:
* DeviceMap has been in the incubator since
   2012-01-03. It seems like it is still struggling
   with the basics: producing releases and growing
   its PMC. What's the recommendation here?
 
* Kalumet has been in the incubator since 2011-09-20.
  On one hand, it may be ready to graduate, but there
  are also a few troubling signs. We need to get
  recommendation on how to proceed.
 
* S4 seems to be on a trajectory for retirement. Can we,
   please, have mentors initiate that discussion in the
   community and follow up on general@ ?
 
* Wave is similar to Kalumet in that its been incubating
   for a very long time (since 2010-12-01) but still show
   troubling signs of lack of activity, lack of releases and
   active PMC involvement.
 
* NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Has
   a pretty consistent track record of missing reports and
   low amount of activity.
 
 And speaking of NPanday it seems to also have an additional
 complication of mentors missing in action. I am also looking
 for ideas of how to fix that. The best thought I have so far
 is to ask for volunteers to step in and help.
 
 Anyway, to make long story short, if mentors could check
 back with their projects and reply to this thread with
 concrete assessments and recommendations that would
 be awesome.
 
 Thanks,
 Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Patrick Hunt
The S4 retirement vote is in progress:
http://markmail.org/message/mkxdu6fnzmsybeq2

Patrick

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:
 Hi!

 I would like to kindly request some assistance
 from the mentors of the following projects: devicemap,
 kalumet, s4, wave and npanday (all CCed).

 I would like to figure out whether the concerns I have
 for these projects are justified and if they are, what
 would be the proposed steps for the IPMC.

 To be more specific:
* DeviceMap has been in the incubator since
   2012-01-03. It seems like it is still struggling
   with the basics: producing releases and growing
   its PMC. What's the recommendation here?

* Kalumet has been in the incubator since 2011-09-20.
  On one hand, it may be ready to graduate, but there
  are also a few troubling signs. We need to get
  recommendation on how to proceed.

* S4 seems to be on a trajectory for retirement. Can we,
   please, have mentors initiate that discussion in the
   community and follow up on general@ ?

* Wave is similar to Kalumet in that its been incubating
   for a very long time (since 2010-12-01) but still show
   troubling signs of lack of activity, lack of releases and
   active PMC involvement.

* NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Has
   a pretty consistent track record of missing reports and
   low amount of activity.

 And speaking of NPanday it seems to also have an additional
 complication of mentors missing in action. I am also looking
 for ideas of how to fix that. The best thought I have so far
 is to ask for volunteers to step in and help.

 Anyway, to make long story short, if mentors could check
 back with their projects and reply to this thread with
 concrete assessments and recommendations that would
 be awesome.

 Thanks,
 Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
 monitor it anymore

I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.

I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
details.

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Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
I think Tez needs some more help mentoring. I myself haven't had
as much time as possible so the more folks over there that can
help mentor the better.

Good job starting this thread, Roman.






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Subject: Re: Request for mentor assessment

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
wrote:
 Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
 monitor it anymore

I've had exactly the same experience. My plan here is to wait for folks
to chime in on this thread and for those mentors who are MiA start
different threads asking for additional (replacement) mentors.

I really would like for things like retirement proposals to come from
somebody who's spent time getting to know the community in greater
details.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote:
 Roman,

 Regarding Wave, this comes up periodically. The two mentors (myself and
 Christian) are of the opinion that it sitting in the incubator is not
 doing harm.

 The project is definitely in need of new resource, and I wonder whether
 it will gain the necessary, but up until now, those active devs have
 wanted to stay here, and mentors have considered this acceptable.

This is one of the questions, I'd like to explore in greater details: are
we comfortable with having professional student projects in the
incubator?

In the case of Wave, it really strikes me as odd that the community is not
capable of even a single release in more than 3.5 years:
   http://incubator.apache.org/wave/downloads.html

This suggests that ASF is being used as a GitHub of sorts. Are we comfortable
with this?

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 06/12/2014 07:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
 This is one of the questions, I'd like to explore in greater details: are
 we comfortable with having professional student projects in the
 incubator?

In response to the general question, it seems that professional
student podlings are inconsistent with the idea that the Incubator is a
process that should result in graduation or termination.

 In the case of Wave, it really strikes me as odd that the community is not
 capable of even a single release in more than 3.5 years:
http://incubator.apache.org/wave/downloads.html
 
 This suggests that ASF is being used as a GitHub of sorts. Are we comfortable
 with this?

Speaking for myself, no. I'd be uncomfortable having a specific deadline
for graduation, but a podling that's not making progress towards
graduation (in general, not pointing a finger specifically at Wave here)
should be terminated.

Best,

jzb
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j...@zonker.net
Twitter: @jzb
http://www.dissociatedpress.net/

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-12 Thread Deng Ching-Mallete
Hi all,

As I've replied to Roman earlier in a separate email thread in NPanday
list, I have already stepped down as mentor for the project over a year ago.

Anyway, I took a quick look at the Jira and commit notifications, and the
last commit made was on April 4. There have been a number of tickets
reported in the recent weeks, but there doesn't seem to be anyone actively
working on any of them. If there aren't any volunteers that are willing to
step in and help, I guess the best option is to move the project to attic
as mentioned.

-Deng


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Henry Saputra henry.sapu...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
 monitor it anymore

 On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:

  Hi!
 
  I would like to kindly request some assistance
  from the mentors of the following projects: devicemap,
  kalumet, s4, wave and npanday (all CCed).
 
  I would like to figure out whether the concerns I have
  for these projects are justified and if they are, what
  would be the proposed steps for the IPMC.
 
  To be more specific:
 * DeviceMap has been in the incubator since
2012-01-03. It seems like it is still struggling
with the basics: producing releases and growing
its PMC. What's the recommendation here?
 
 * Kalumet has been in the incubator since 2011-09-20.
   On one hand, it may be ready to graduate, but there
   are also a few troubling signs. We need to get
   recommendation on how to proceed.
 
 * S4 seems to be on a trajectory for retirement. Can we,
please, have mentors initiate that discussion in the
community and follow up on general@ ?
 
 * Wave is similar to Kalumet in that its been incubating
for a very long time (since 2010-12-01) but still show
troubling signs of lack of activity, lack of releases and
active PMC involvement.
 
 * NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Has
a pretty consistent track record of missing reports and
low amount of activity.
 
  And speaking of NPanday it seems to also have an additional
  complication of mentors missing in action. I am also looking
  for ideas of how to fix that. The best thought I have so far
  is to ask for volunteers to step in and help.
 
  Anyway, to make long story short, if mentors could check
  back with their projects and reply to this thread with
  concrete assessments and recommendations that would
  be awesome.
 
  Thanks,
  Roman.
 
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Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi!

I would like to kindly request some assistance
from the mentors of the following projects: devicemap,
kalumet, s4, wave and npanday (all CCed).

I would like to figure out whether the concerns I have
for these projects are justified and if they are, what
would be the proposed steps for the IPMC.

To be more specific:
   * DeviceMap has been in the incubator since
  2012-01-03. It seems like it is still struggling
  with the basics: producing releases and growing
  its PMC. What's the recommendation here?

   * Kalumet has been in the incubator since 2011-09-20.
 On one hand, it may be ready to graduate, but there
 are also a few troubling signs. We need to get
 recommendation on how to proceed.

   * S4 seems to be on a trajectory for retirement. Can we,
  please, have mentors initiate that discussion in the
  community and follow up on general@ ?

   * Wave is similar to Kalumet in that its been incubating
  for a very long time (since 2010-12-01) but still show
  troubling signs of lack of activity, lack of releases and
  active PMC involvement.

   * NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Has
  a pretty consistent track record of missing reports and
  low amount of activity.

And speaking of NPanday it seems to also have an additional
complication of mentors missing in action. I am also looking
for ideas of how to fix that. The best thought I have so far
is to ask for volunteers to step in and help.

Anyway, to make long story short, if mentors could check
back with their projects and reply to this thread with
concrete assessments and recommendations that would
be awesome.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Request for mentor assessment

2014-06-11 Thread Henry Saputra
Seems like NPanday should go to attic. One mentor I asked did not even
monitor it anymore

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote:

 Hi!

 I would like to kindly request some assistance
 from the mentors of the following projects: devicemap,
 kalumet, s4, wave and npanday (all CCed).

 I would like to figure out whether the concerns I have
 for these projects are justified and if they are, what
 would be the proposed steps for the IPMC.

 To be more specific:
* DeviceMap has been in the incubator since
   2012-01-03. It seems like it is still struggling
   with the basics: producing releases and growing
   its PMC. What's the recommendation here?

* Kalumet has been in the incubator since 2011-09-20.
  On one hand, it may be ready to graduate, but there
  are also a few troubling signs. We need to get
  recommendation on how to proceed.

* S4 seems to be on a trajectory for retirement. Can we,
   please, have mentors initiate that discussion in the
   community and follow up on general@ ?

* Wave is similar to Kalumet in that its been incubating
   for a very long time (since 2010-12-01) but still show
   troubling signs of lack of activity, lack of releases and
   active PMC involvement.

* NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13. Has
   a pretty consistent track record of missing reports and
   low amount of activity.

 And speaking of NPanday it seems to also have an additional
 complication of mentors missing in action. I am also looking
 for ideas of how to fix that. The best thought I have so far
 is to ask for volunteers to step in and help.

 Anyway, to make long story short, if mentors could check
 back with their projects and reply to this thread with
 concrete assessments and recommendations that would
 be awesome.

 Thanks,
 Roman.

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