All, I wanted to express my well wishes to you all on a successful first release. Most podlings see this as a milestone, I'll be updating the various tracking sheets shortly with this note.
So what's next? Once the mechanics of a release are squared away, projects figure out ways to grow the community. Here's a short list of things I'd recommend: - Make sure the release process is documented and that the next release has a different release manager. - Start putting together developer centric documentation. This may include some high level architecture, written designs. - Put together a contributor's guide. This may explain how the project works (via github pull requests), creating JIRA tickets, browsing fisheye, testing locally. - Make all of this easily discoverable. We have a lot of these documents, but they may be hard to find. - Make sure we have a downloads page that points to the source release (ASF requirement). John
