Given Lei and Jia’s response, I am OK to give them a few more months to figure it out, but it’s really got to happen during that time or we’ll be right back here to square one.
Lei, and Jia, and CMDA community: you can start by writing an Incubator report this month that demonstrates the community introspection and the plan, and then you can follow by interacting here at the ASF, first, and only, for your project. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Director, Information Retrieval and Data Science Group (IRDS) Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA WWW: http://irds.usc.edu/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On 7/5/16, 12:58 PM, "Pan, Lei (398K)" <[email protected]> wrote: >Like Jia said, we would like to stay and therefore >would appreciate it greatly if the mentors could >give us a three-month probation. > >Our latest efforts in creating a CMDA community include >recruiting a Caltech student into our development >team via the summer internship program, and getting >ready to serve as the tool for the Caltech/JPL climate >summer school. We will be reporting the details of >these activities along the way. > >Thanks a lot for your help! >-Lei >________________________________________ >From: Jia Zhang [[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 11:01 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Retire the CMDA Podling > >Dear Chris and Mentors: > >The team had a meeting to retrospect our Apache Incubator experience. We >realized that the team has put a lot of intention to building the project but >put insufficient efforts on fulfilling Apache requirements. Our deep apology >from the team. > >Now that we have understood the importance of following Apache procedure and >smoothing and documenting all communications, we would like to ask for another >chance to work on the incubator project. Say, we would ask for a three month >of testing time frame. If we fail to meet the requirement, we will retire the >project. > >Please let us know your thoughts. > >Best regards, >Jia > >> On Jul 5, 2016, at 8:59 AM, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> As a mentor, this is a difficult decision for me. Overall, I am +1 >> in favor of retiring the podling. >> >> The podling has been given ample time to discuss and make use of >> the Apache mentorship and community and its actions have shown that >> the mentality for development is unfortunately different. I believe >> it is in the best interests of both the community for CMDA and the >> Apache community to retire the podling at this point in time. >> >> Sincerely, >> Chris Mattmann >> >> >> >>> On 7/5/16, 8:57 AM, "Martin Desruisseaux" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello John >>> >>> Sorry for the delay. I saw the thread and the call for the vote, but I'm >>> not sure to understand what "podling" means? >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> >>>> Le 03/07/16 à 15:27, John D. Ament a écrit : >>>> All, >>>> >>>> There was a discussion recently [1] started by Chris about the state of the >>>> podling. I'm concerned about lack of public activity, and what seems to be >>>> external forces who control the state of the podling. As a result, I'm >>>> calling a vote to retire the CMDA podling. >>>> >>>> [ ] +1 to retire CMDA from the Incubator >>>> [ ] -1 to keep CMDA in the Incubator >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> [1]: >>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c341a6f977e1e650980fb0c66f8669e428c98bc2e8c130d6f948d21@%3Cdev.cmda.apache.org%3E >>
