Everyone,
Here's the January 2017 board report. Please reply if you'd like to make a
correction. Notably, my summary of recent threads on community engagement
may need to be updated. My intent was a neutral summary.
Thanks,
rb
## Description:
- Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The 1.8.2 release candidate failed with too few PMC votes.
## Health report:
- The 1.8.2 release candidate failed because only 2 PMC members
voted. When discussed on the dev list, there were two
suggestions to avoid this in the future. First, use open-ended
votes to give PMC members more time to notice there is a vote.
Second, the RM should reach out to PMC members to make sure
they see that a vote is happening.
- After last report IDF asked, "What steps precisely do you have
planned to take to increase contributor engagement?" The step
that the community agrees on is continuous integration to
provide automated feedback to both contributors and committers.
Not much has been done to set up automated testing.
Part of the community is also in favor of splitting out
implementations into separate repositories to make the project
easier to work with. This idea is controversial and discussion
has stalled without a resolution.
- Last report stated, "Contributor engagement is still a goal we
are working on. Many committers do not have time to review
patches." IDF asked, "Where does this time pressure come from?"
To clarify, time pressure was a generous assumption. A more
correct statement is simply that reviews are not keeping pace
with contributions. Part of the community considers this a
problem becuase without reviews we can't grow the community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Niels Basjes was added to the PMC on Fri Dec 16 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Matthieu Monsch at Mon Jan 18 2016
## Releases:
- 1.8.1 was released on Fri May 20 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@avro.apache.org:
- 278 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 462 emails sent to list (757 in previous quarter)
- u...@avro.apache.org:
- 633 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 68 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 51 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Ryan Blue
Software Engineer
Netflix
