Thanks Davor, Points taken, we will learn and improve on those.
Just one clearification, I was not blaming the mentor I myself was more focused on working with Guy on automating the build than following up. Rereading my own response I can see that was unclear. On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 11:02 am, Davor Bonaci <da...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for a great response. Some comments inline. > > * In the last month we have been working on automating the release process > > via Travis, we are still trying to enable Travis build for the Amaterasu > > repo, which is taking ridiculously long. We need one of the mentors to > just > > enable it via their account (I've already talked a couple of times to one > > of the mentors about it). > > > > Searching for 'travis' in the mailing list archives doesn't yield any > discussion threads. > > Mentors don't have permission to do this themselves. Infra JIRA is the way > to do it, but I couldn't find such JIRA ticket filed. > > Emailing one mentor directly (or any other community member) isn't a way to > build the community. Things need to be discussed in public whenever > possible. > > Given the above, blaming a mentor (whomever you may be referring to) > doesn't make sense. > > * We are ready to release version 0.2.0-incubating, the reason it took us a > > month to initiate the process is the above automated build, which I > > suggested in prior discussion and had no rejections. We will complete > this > > once build is enabled. > > > > The release itself is a great milestone, but not the purpose to itself. > > > > * as for community growth, we are working with two organizations on > running > > POCs (which will hopefully grow the user base) one of them is due to > start > > very soon. I don't want to name them (first of all it's too early, and > also > > it is for them to decide if they want to share) but a representative from > > at least one of those organisations is on the list and is welcomed to > share > > :) > > > > Great! > > > > * This year I've seen contributions from 4 contributors (not much more > than > > 3, I know) but one of them is new (Guy Peleg) and AFAIK additional > > longer-term work is done by one more contributor on his local fork (Nadav > > Har-Tzvi) > > > > I think this is the crux of the problem. Why is longer-term work going on > in a local fork? > > > > * We should be presenting more, and growing the community more which is > > hard to do starting out as a tiny community. Any advice given there would > > be appreciated. > > > > The first thing has to be do the basics well: on-list communication, open > discussions, no side channels, etc. > -- Yaniv Rodenski +61 477 778 405 ya...@shinto.io
