Hello Marvin, On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Are you having difficulty getting releases reviewed? (That's a classic pain >> point for podlings that have been around for a while.) By the way, when was >> the last release? "Date of last release" is in the podling report template, >> but it wasn't in the report that was filed. I tried to figure it out by >> looking at <http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vxquery.html> but it wasn't >> there, nor was there an obvious download page on the podling website at >> <http://incubator.apache.org/vxquery/>. > > Gah, sorry, I misread your report, which contained this line: > > The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is > still the first release. Two release candidates have been created and > rejected so far. The third release candiate is not ready yet. > > This thread is also germane: > > http://markmail.org/thread/4gok66zibfwt6mzw > > VXQuery release needs votes Yes, release votes are one point, another point is that we could probably avoid asking for votes for more than one RC on [email protected] if we had more ASF-experienced eyes looking at it on the dev list. Wrt to the other points you mentioned, collaboration seems generally effective (albeit not always on the list), technical infrastructure is not a big problem, and most things I learn about ASF culture I learn from discussions on [email protected]. I think that the mentor activity that we could benefit from is the occasional benevolent hint on how to make things work more smoothly within the ASF. Till
