thoughts and comments inline Mike
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 5:10 PM Ed Coleman <edcole...@apache.org> wrote: > The Accumulo community has agreed to draft the quaterly reports using the > maling list. > > Sorry for the late notice on this - I had a vague notion that this was > upcoming, but didn't realize until the first email today from Apache that > it was due so soon. Please, if you have any suggestions on Project > Activity or Community Health - I find writing those sections particularly > difficult. I go from things are fine to writing release notes and have > trouble striking the right balance or even if I've included the relevant > info. > > I'll incorporate comments as received and will submit on Friday to meet > the deadline. > > Thanks. > > Ed Coleman > > ---- begin report ---- > > ## Description: > The mission of Apache Accumulo is the creation and maintenance of software > related to a robust, scalable, distributed key/value store with cell-based > access control and customizable server-side processing. > > ## Issues: > There are no new issues requiring board attention. > > The trademark issue with http:www.accumulodata.com is still open until the > domain expires on 2021-06-28. No action has been required and allowing the > domain to expire was deemed a viable option by Brand Management VP to > minimize > volunteer efforts. > Probably want to link to the mailing list. There are new boards members that haven't seen this and those that have may not remember > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Accumulo was founded 2012-03-21 (9 years ago) > There are currently 39 committers and 39 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - Karthick Narendran was added to the PMC on 2021-01-22 > - Karthick Narendran was added as committer on 2021-01-22 > > ## Project Activity: > No new releases this reporting period. Last release dates: > - accumulo-2.0.1 was released on 2020-12-24. > - accumulo-1.10.1 was released on 2020-12-22. > > Project activity on the next release remains active with significant > improvements to the current baseline. The remaining issues are being > actively > worked. Highlights of changes this reporting period: > - Removal of problematic process names to more inclusive terms. > - Formalization of public API. Previously, certain internal classes were > necessary for users for some functions (iterators) - the interface has > been > extracted and formally declared as part of the Accumulo public API. > - Internal improvements handling threads and exceptions to improve > reliability > - Accumulo community agreed to participate in an upcoming OSS virtual > hackathon (April 29-30) The goal of the hackathon is to kick-start > involvement in the OSS community and foster an environment for > contributions > and increase the diversity of the OSS communities. > I would highlight the diversity part, maybe using the subject from Billie's email and start with something like "- The Apache Accumulo PMC agreed to participate in an Open Source Hackathon for Diversity..." and then again include a link (https://tiny.cc/osshack) > ## Community Health: > Overall community health is good and activity remains consistent. > Decreases > in Jira (-65%) and dev mailing list activity (-53%) reflect the community > transition to using GitHub as a focal point for development. This is > reflected in the increased activity for PRs and GotHub issues. > - contributions from 14 individuals reflecting continued community > involvement > and consistent participation. s/GotHub/Github Most of the time the board is going to say they don't want statistics from issues and lists, they want our interpretation of those statistics. When I look at the reporter stats at https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?accumulo, what I see is a decrease in mailing list traffic to dev and user, but a marked increase in commits, issues closed and a slight increase in PRs. Clearly work is happening, so the conversations must be in the github tickets and pull requests. I believe we setup that to go to notifications@accumulo.a.o, and the reporter shows a 42% increase in that mailing list
