LGTM On 13 Jan 2017 19:53, "Ryan Blue" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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: > > - [email protected]: > - 278 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): > - 462 emails sent to list (757 in previous quarter) > > - [email protected]: > - 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 > > > -- > Ryan Blue > Software Engineer > Netflix >
