I think Michael and Julian's proposals are all good ideas.
Regarding moving Avatica to an independent project, what is the process
for doing so? Does this process turn it into a TLP with its own seperate
PMC and PMC Chair? My only concern is that work on Avatica is not as
active as Calcite and there aren't as many active contributors. At the
same time, it's also possible the project could gain a lot more new
contributors if it becomes more independent.
Francis
On 18/10/2019 7:09 am, Julian Hyde wrote:
Many people who are interested in Avatica are not interested in Calcite. (Yes
the Board are interested in both, because they are interested in the
communities, which overlap. But users of Avatica, not so much. And if people
perceive that Avatica requires Calcite they might be less likely to adopt it.)
I think Avatica would be more discoverable if it was hosted at https://avatica.apache.org
<https://avatica.apache.org/>, rather than https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/
<https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/>.
I think the brief mention of Avatica on Calcite’s home page is adequate. Perhaps
there should be a section on Avatica in https://calcite.apache.org/community/
<https://calcite.apache.org/community/>.
In other words, it’s time to move Avatica a little further along its evolution
from module to sub-project to independent project.
Julian
On Oct 17, 2019, at 6:54 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote:
Since there's only one sub-project, why don't we convert the
Sub-Projects section on the homepage into a short description of
Avatica?
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Michael Mior
[email protected]
Le jeu. 17 oct. 2019 à 06:19, Francis Chuang
<[email protected]> a écrit :
This was one of the comments on the October Board report for Calcite:
df: Great progress!
About Avatica - I had to google to find the subproject as I did
not see anything obvious on the Calcite site. I would also be
good to provide more status on the subproject in your future
reports.
The Avatica sub-project is currently linked on Calcite's homepage, but
it is not very noticeable or discoverable.
Any thoughts on how we can improve the visibility of Avatica?
Francis
