Hi Tom, bq. When a release goes to VOTE how do we get more people involved?
Hit Twitter, Facebook and the G+ group. I do this with every piece of software I do RM for. It actually seems to work! One thing we've been getting more of over on Nutch (due to this) is some people from the community who are not committers and/or PMC but who end up taking the time to review an RC. I think that is not only cool but also really positive for the RC as more people have seen it and hopefully reviewed it. I want to share some experienced working within the Any23 community. Any23 is VERY quiet. I used to have to go to the IPMC to p*ss off enough people from the Any23 PMC that they would eventually come back and review the RC. The lesson I learned over there is that just because people don't get back immediately, or if they don't reply within say even a week, it doesn't mean that they don't give a toss, it's 'most likely' that they are just crammed with 101 things to do. In some cases, actually in most cases I would much rather have people review the RC in their own time and be positive that a VOTE is well placed rather than just throwing in a +1 for the sheer hell of it. Good job with the RC. Pushing releases is a great thing for OODT. If you look at the release history, it was not too long ago that OODT was releasing once a year. Current release management strategy is looking much better. Lewis On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Tom Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks > > As some of you will be aware there has been a release VOTE sat in the wild > with no votes since Feb 11th, now I might have picked a bad time to submit > the vote but that's by the by, I have a question off of the back of this. > > When a release goes to VOTE how do we get more people involved? > > There are 43 people on the PMC who can all check the release artefacts and > VOTE on whether it be released or not, yet the majority of the releases > have the same 4 or 5 people voting. So, are most of the PMC emeritus? Is it > a lack of clarity on what is involved in voting, or something completely > different? > > Understandably the platform doesn't see a great deal of development > activity because it does what it says on the tin, but as its an ASF project > it does need a cohesive PMC to make sure build and issues get resolved > properly, so what can we do to improve it? > > Thanks > > Tom > -- *Lewis*
