Hi Wangda, Thank you for continuing to keep us moving forward and refining these vital sync-ups.
> 3) Update the US [YARN/MapReduce] sync up time from 9AM to 10AM PDT. That puts it at noon central time, which is during our lunch hour. However, I am +1 for this if we are able to allow greater participation from folks on the U.S. west coast. -Eric Payne On Monday, August 19, 2019, 10:32:20 PM CDT, Wangda Tan <wheele...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We have run community sync up for 1.5 months. I spoke to folks offline and > got some feedback. Here's a summary of what I've observed from sync ups and > talked to organizers. > > Following sync ups have very good participants (sometimes 10+ folks joined): > - YARN/MR monthly sync up in APAC (Mandarin) > - HDFS monthly sync up in APAC (Mandarin). > - Submarine weekly sync up in APAC (Mandarin). > > Following sync up have OK-ish participants: (3-5 folks joined). > - Storage monthly sync up in APAC (English) > - Storage bi-weekly sync up in US (English) > - YARN bi-weekly sync up in US (English). > > Following sync ups don't have good participants: (Skipped a couple of times). > - YARN monthly sync up in APAC (English). > - Submarine bi-weekly sync up in US (English). > > So I'd like to propose the following changes and fixes of the schedule: > 1) Cancel the YARN/MR monthly sync up in APAC (English). Folks from APAC who > speak English can choose to join the US session. > 2) Cancel the Submarine bi-weekly sync up in US (English). Now Submarine > developers and users are fast-growing in Mandarin-speaking areas. We can > resume the sync if we do see demands from English- > speaking areas. > 3) Update the US sync up time from 9AM to 10AM PDT. 9AM is too early for most > of the west-cost folks. > > Following are fixes for the schedule: > 1) In the proposal, repeats are not properly. (I used bi-weekly instead of > 2nd/4th week as repeat frequency). I'd like to fix the frequency on Thu and > it will take effect starting next week. > > Overall, thanks for everybody who participated in the sync ups. I do see > community contributions grow in the last one month! > > Any thoughts about the proposal? > > Thanks, > Wangda
