Thanks for sharing this. A few comments inline: On 11/23/16 7:17 AM, Rohan Verma wrote: > Hello > > I recently attended ApacheCon Europe 2016 and wanted to share some insights > and experiences. > > - What do people know and how much people know about Apache Allura > > From what I observed, people from North America seem to know about Allura > but don't know that it has more features than Git/Hg. Apart from North > Americans, people only seem to recall what Allura does when SourceForge is > mentioned. > > I heard of Apache Allura being mentioned twice in the sessions of the > Conference at a Keynote and at a talk by Jim Jagielski and feel there is a > lot of interest in the community after they hear about the project but > since the project is not that exposed to the community, people are hesitant > to use it. But after explaining and talking about it, people get very > interested as it solves a lot of their problems. Although, inevitably > Github, and the Atlassian Suite come up in the conversation. > > - Response after Presentation at the Apache BarCamp > > I had the chance to present at the BarCamp and was able to demonstrate > (nearly) all the features of Allura. There was a diverse crowd and many > people from the COMDEV and UI/UX field as well. What most people liked was > how integrated all the features felt but found it difficult to use on the > first go.
Any specific suggestions what could be better? > > The person from COMDEV, was interested to see the Wiki and Blog since it's > an important part of Community development and since at Apache, Community > comes first before Code. She felt that having a single point of entry for > Apache projects at an open source platform would greatly enhance community > development. > > A person from the Apache Solr team wanted to see more Solr being used, > especially the new features and believes it would add value to the project. > > A topic that was being discussed at the BarCamp before I began was how > Github, Slack, and IRC are a bit off-track from the Apache way in the > context of the "If it didn't happen on the mailing list, it did not happen" > and therefore, Apache Allura stands out due to the ability of being able to > email everything to the list. > > A new idea that popped into my mind to solve the issue with IRC and the > Mailing List was to develop an API endpoint for the IRC logger plugin to be > able to send an email from a certain point. So, a meeting bot for IRC can > be created that logs a meeting on IRC and in the end calls the API endpoint > to email to the list at the end of the meeting. Also, if we could add the > text of the IRC logger into the Solr Search it would be great. > That would be nice. The IRC chats do get saved as Artifacts, and thus indexed for search already. > Another part of the project that stood out to a person involved with > Incubators was the Activity feed. He said that if that could be worked upon > to be made a bit better, it will lead to reducing the pain of the people on > the board to see the progress of podlings. He also wanted to see Merge > Requests to be on the mailing list. I'd like to see that too, so everyone can know that they are happening. Ticket https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/8111/ > > -- > > Another thing I would like to mention is that this would be the time to get > involved with trying to setup a forge for the whole ASF projects since > right now a lot work is being done to upgrade. For eg. recently the mailing > list viewer was updated. See lists.apache.org > > So I wish to end with some things that I propose that we could start with > from the middle of December, if convenient for everyone. (I really haven't > been able to devote any appreciable amount of time to the development of > the project during this semester, and therefore I'm now planning on working > only after my semester ends) > > - Complete and push the JIRA importer > - Collaborate on a Roadmap for the project > - Clean the issues pending in the tracker > - Make a twitter handle and increase outreach > - Collaborate on COMDEV and post an email there to invite people to try > Allura > - Maybe mirror to forge.allura.org > - Collaborate and talk to the Infra team > > Also, please share your ideas and suggestions. > I like all of your ideas. https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/wiki/Goals/ has some broader goals listed, things that take more than 1 or 2 tickets to accomplish. A specific roadmap can be challenging since we don't all know what we'll have time to work on, or new ideas we get in the future. -- Dave Brondsema : d...@brondsema.net http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming <><
