Hello all, I wanted to bring up a few points for discussion with the community. I'd really like to hear what the community's thoughts are on these issues and how can resolve them.
1. Lack of participation. This is due to many members moving on from the project and becoming dormant. More concerning is the fact that our PMC roster sits at 21 members [1] of which fewer than half have participated in the project during the last 6 months. This inactivity has led the voting process for releases to be held up by the inability to reach the required minimum 3 votes for releases (both tar.gz and binary). Our latest binary packaging vote has been going on for more than a month. [2] With the recent additions of Santhosh Kumar Shanmugham and Jordan Ly to the Aurora PMC, we hope to mitigate this issue. It would be fantastic to see some initiative from long contributing members to make a case for themselves for being considered for committer and/or PMC membership. 2. Binary packages. While we have been struggling to get enough votes for making the release official, the voting process has been marked by a lack of enthusiasm from the community. I know that many folks are using these packages (including myself), but we need to hear feedback when we call votes. It is not enough to stand by silently if everything works; please let us know about it. As it stands, the enthusiasm (or lack thereof) for binary packages doesn't justify the overhead involved in releasing them. Therefore I propose that we drop official binary packages for the next release. This is up for discussion and I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on this. An alternative to ending binary packages would be to automate the process on tar.gz releases, but that would most likely need to be a community contribution. 3. Version 1.0. I realize this is a touchy subject. While other projects that were started around the same time as Aurora, such as Mesos itself, have gone on to make a 1.0 release (indicating the projects maturity), we have stuck to our 0.X.0 releases. Aurora is a mature project wether it is labeled 0.X.0 or X.0.0, but I wanted to bring up for discussion how everyone felt about making our next release a 1.0 release to reflect the stability and maturity of the project. That is all from me, if anyone else has any other concerns regarding the Aurora community, feel free to bring it up in this thread! -Renan [1] https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?aurora [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9df9d142408efffd11a1cdc5e4c1e3 67208cf8e618730f7c761b0f35@%3Cdev.aurora.apache.org%3E
