Incubator PMC/Board report for March 2011 (connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-03-01 Thread no-reply
Dear ManifoldCF Developers, This email was sent by an automated system on behalf of the Apache Incubator PMC. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare your quarterly board report. The board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 16 March 2011, 10 am Pacific. The report for your

Re: Next release?

2011-03-01 Thread Grant Ingersoll
0.2 makes sense. I think we need to figure out how to attract more contribution. It may have been a mistake to have separate user and dev lists at this point in the game. We need users to also be contributors. -Grant On Feb 20, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Karl Wright wrote: A lot of fairly

Re: Next release?

2011-03-01 Thread Karl Wright
I've been pulling users in to extract contributions from them as best I can. This has generally been effective; success rate is about 3 out of 4. But it's a pull process, from people who don't usually contribute to open source. Karl On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Grant Ingersoll

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for March 2011 (connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-03-01 Thread Karl Wright
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: I think we need to brainstorm around this board report a bit more, especially the steps for graduation: We definitely need more active committers.  It's basically Karl at this point and Robert, Simon and I jump in

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for March 2011 (connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-03-01 Thread Karl Wright
Also, would LucidImagination be willing to put up a blurb for the book on its site? Karl On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Karl Wright daddy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: I think we need to brainstorm around this board report a

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for March 2011 (connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-03-01 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Karl Wright wrote: Karl, what do you think we can do to make it easier for people to get into the code? Are other people putting up patches? What's been happening is that we do indeed get code from contributors, but the contributors in question seem like

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for March 2011 (connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-03-01 Thread Karl Wright
+1 for collapsing, provided we can merge the existing subscription lists. If we can't do that, than I'm not in favor. Karl On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Karl Wright wrote: Karl, what do you think we can do to make it

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for March 2011 (connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-03-01 Thread Karl Wright
We should document on the wiki the steps for contributing patches, like we do for Lucene, et. al.  This generally helps and gives us something to point people to in the future.  Also, if we get a few patches from one or two people on a regular basis, we should look to add them as