Thanks all for the responses, and thank you Doug for the comment on Jira. I
have first version ready of Dockerized version running all the different
languages: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/336

Please take a look and let me know what you all think.

Kind regards, Fokko

Op wo 26 sep. 2018 om 10:26 schreef Sean Busbey <[email protected]>:

> speaking of precommit builds, if someone wants to pick up and drive
> AVRO-1887 ("set up precommit checks via Apache Yetus") to
> completion, that would greatly ease the burden of testing out
> contributions.
>
> AFAICT the PMC is open to big shifts here, we're just bandwidth
> limited for things that aren't phrased as a VOTE.
>
> If folks are interested in regularly spending time on maintenance tasks
> (docs, testing, reviews, and releases) and they'd like guidance on
> doing that in a way that quickly leads to project responsibilities (i.e.
> committer or pmc status) please ping the pmc at
> [email protected]. If for whatever reason folks feel
> uncomfortable emailing a closed list, you can also ping me directly.
>
>
>
> On 2018/09/25 07:14:54, "Driesprong, Fokko" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sure makes sense, I'll pick this up. Created a Jira:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/AVRO/issues/AVRO-2229
> >
> > Op ma 24 sep. 2018 om 14:38 schreef Doug Cutting <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > Getting pre-commit builds working would be very welcome.  Updating the
> > > docker-based build to do this would be doubly good, as it would mean
> that
> > > any developer could then easily make a release.  Right now one has to
> > > install all the requirements for every language to make a release.
> These
> > > dependencies are supposedly documented in the BUILD.txt file, but that
> file
> > > is now out of date.  Having the build dependencies tested with each PR
> > > should help us keep them up to date so that we can release more easily
> and
> > > often.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:14 AM Driesprong, Fokko <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Let me cut right to the chase, the lack of activity on the Apache
> Avro
> > > > master makes me a bit sad. I believe Avro is a format that many
> people
> > > > happly use, and will be used in the future (at least I hope).
> > > >
> > > > Therefore we need:
> > > >
> > > >    - *Continue the development of features:* For example, I'd like
> to see
> > > >    the following PR merged, and since Joda has been deprecated a long
> > > while
> > > >    ago: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/309
> > > >    - *Update the dependencies:* Within the codebase there are quite
> some
> > > >    known CVE's. It is aways a race to keep up to date, but we should
> in
> > > > order
> > > >    to stay secure. For example, The Apache Velocity template engine
> is
> > > old,
> > > >    and pulls in an old version of apache-commons which has known
> security
> > > >    problems, eg. CVE-2015-6420, CVE-2017-15708. I've created a PR for
> > > this:
> > > >    https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/332
> > > >    - *Automate stuff: *I'm happy to set up a Travis to run some CI
> tasks
> > > >    for each PR. This relieves on the committers since they don't
> have to
> > > > run
> > > >    the testsuite every time a small change is introduced. Let me
> know if
> > > > this
> > > >    sounds interesting, and I'm happy to set it up.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the PR's and tickets, a lot of people are putting effort
> in
> > > > making PR's and adding features to Avro. It is a pity that the Avro
> > > project
> > > > seems to stall. I'm happy to help if that is necessary to start the
> > > > development cycle again.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers, Fokko
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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