As the most recent person added as a Chukwa committer I think we should give the project a chance.
I think Chukwa has suffered from a lack of interest in the Hadoop community, maybe adding more committers would help. I think we need people who would write articles about Chukwa in technical publications more than we need people who code. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So the idea is to give the contributors committership and hope things > take off? > > Seems like a good idea to me, especially if Chukwa hasn't tried doing > that before. > > > Eric does want to make one more release. Maybe that will churn some > enthusiasm. > > Eric is very tenacious about keeping it open and he is very timely with > the mailing > > list discussions and submitted patches. > > Not sure if it's the case here (I don't follow Chukwa in detail), but > I know some projects where a highly active lead developer has actually > held back the community even though he had all the best intentions in > mind. Instead of directly jumping in and fixing issues that people > encounter, it's often a better long-term idea to help them come up > with a solution themselves. That approach obviously doesn't work with > all users, but with some such empowerment can be highly rewarding. > "Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." [*] > > > I'm inclined to give it another shot but I'm wondering what criteria do > we use > > to decide that we've done all we've can. > > I guess the best criteria is when people run out of ideas or the > energy to implement them. > > Basically incubation of a project makes sense for as long as there's > ongoing progress towards graduation. Once progress is no longer being > made, it's time for a podling to exit the Incubator in one way or > another. > > [*] Apparently originally by Anne Isabella Ritchie in 1885 > (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/give-a-man-a-fish.html), though > the proverb is widely attributed to various other sources ranging from > the Bible to Tao Te Ching. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > -- Ahmed Fathalla
