Hi Ant, Agree with your recommendation. There were some people that have contributed multiple patches in the past. Some of them date back to 2010. I wonder if it would be a good idea to invite them to contribute, or we should focus on people that have multiple patches in 2012?
regards, Eric On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:09 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > Any other points that would be interesting to include in the report? I > am > > > not sure what else that we should do before graduation. In Chukwa > status > > > page, we seem to have accomplished all check points. > > > > > > My general feeling is that Chukwa might be ready to start preparing for > > graduation. > > > > As discussed in the retirement threads, there are graduated podlings and > > other Apache projects with similar levels of activity and diversity. The > > underlying reason for the activity and diversity criteria for graduation > is > > the desire to ensure longevity of the project. Someone who starts using > an > > Apache product should have a reasonable expectation of help from the > > community and people willing to review and apply their potential patches > > also a few years down the line. This is often ensured by a large and > > vibrant community (typically hundreds of messages per month, plenty of > > active committers and contributors), but smaller projects with committed > > community members and significant real-world users and deployments can be > > just as resilient. It seems like Chukwa fits the latter category and has > a > > reasonable chance to also grow larger over time. > > > > > Hi everyone. I'm inclined to agree with that. > > The main suggestion I have from what i've seen of the project so far is > that there are a lot of patch commits and at least some of those are from > people who've contributed multiple patches. So i wonder if some of those > people couldn't be made committers. Having a low bar to commitership, > especially in low activity projects, can help with keeping the project > active and alive. > > ..ant >
