On 7/17/2020 11:44 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
On 7/17/20 2:37 PM, Armstrong Foundjem wrote:
Hello ASF community members:
I am a research student on FOSS, and currently, I am looking into the
Apache ecosystem to understand the release mechanisms that ASF
projects follow/use. However, it’s not trivial to understand without
the help of expects like you in the community.
Please, can you help me out answer the following questions?
1. What is the release cycle of Apache projects (how many times a year
does ASF releases a new version of it’s products)?
Each project makes its own decisions on this.
To expand a little on this, each project has a Project Management
Committee. The decisions you are asking about are made for each project
by its PMC.
The central organization is mainly concerned with providing some
infrastructure, a non-profit framework, and ensuring each project has a
healthy community with a functioning PMC to make its decisions.
If you want to understand ASF better, I suggest picking a few projects
that interest you and, for each PROJECT_NAME, subscribing to
dev@PROJECT_NAME.apache.org. There you will see the project in action.
2. What release model / release process do projects follow? Are these
models/process very strict or are they flexible for different projects
to do things they own way?
Each project makes its own decisions on this.
3. Are ASF projects inter-dependent to each other during development
cycle of each project is completely unique in following it’s own road
map?
Each project makes its own decisions on this. There are some projects
that are interdependent, but it's not widespread.
Thank you for your time in answering these questions.
Best regards,
Armstrong Foundjem,
Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada
On Jul 17, 2020, at 10:48, Austin Bennett
<whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Julian,
Ultimately, my question comes down to: is it OK to point people
interested
in events for specific (in this case Beam) events to the communication
platform used by the wider asf community. I figure it is ideal to
expand
the overall Apache tent/community. Though there are certainly
tradeoffs.
Unless needed, the question of which platform for the foundation to use
seems a separate discussion.
Cheers,
Austin
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:03 AM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org>
wrote:
On behalf of FOSS fans everywhere: please seriously consider using
[Matrix], the Open federated standard system. It's perfect for this
sort of community, with bridges to Slack and IRC and many other
systems.
In the last two years Matrix has leapt ahead of other contenders like
XMPP and is becoming the Open system of choice adopted by organisations
from Mozilla to universities and governments.
It's a great platform for integrating the chat side, and even the
presentation side through Jitsi, of online events. The matrix devs do
it and wrote a blog post describing how:
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events
Before any of us risks pushing another FOSS community into the
proprietary silo trap, let's pause and consider how we all would in
fact
be paying for it if it's "free as in beer". I've been watching this
space since five years ago when the FOSS alternatives were weak, and
now
I'm really excited to see that, with the overwhelming global need for
such a thing, Matrix has grown strong and is accelerating rapidly.
I would strongly encourage the ASF membership to deploy their own
Matrix
server ASAP as it's the perfect fit for this sort of organization. I
run a personal Matrix server and benefit from modern multi-device
single-app access to all my IRC messaging (via a public bridge), all my
WhatsApp messaging (via a private bridge), some private notes like
diaries, as well as federated native Matrix messaging.
I can give more detailed advice and put you in touch with specific
contacts.
- Julian
See:
* https://matrix.org -- for an introduction to Matrix
* https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events -- see above
* https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ -- for an introduction to
the top company/brand of Matrix services and apps (a bit like how
Redhat
is to Linux)
* https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ -- news about big
government deployments of Matrix
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