Hi Sijie, Would you please help address some of Flavio's comments first, You may have more information for story behind the result. I would like to handle this after your comments.
Thanks a lot. -Jia On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Jia Zhai <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your comments, will address them and post a new draft. > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Flavio Junqueira < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Jia. It would be good to have concrete metrics where possible. >> See my comments below: >> >> > On 30 Oct 2016, at 10:53, Jia Zhai <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks a lot for your suggestions Flavio. >> > And Guys, Here is a draft. Please help comments on it. >> > Regards. >> > -Jia >> > >> > ===================================== >> > >> > DistributedLog >> > >> > DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service. It offers >> > >> > durability, replication and strong consistency, which provides a >> fundamental >> > >> > building block for building reliable distributed systems. >> > >> > DistributedLog has been incubating since 2016-06-24. >> > >> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> > 1. Continue to grow the community, especially people from outside >> > Twitter. >> > [Ask the PMC for helping check the number of people subscribed to dev@ >> mail >> > list] >> >> I think you're referring to the project PMC checking the subscription >> list. I checked and we have 35 people subscribed. A lot of people have >> gmail and apache.org <http://apache.org/> addresses so it is hard to >> tell affiliation. One typical sign of community diversity is to have active >> committers from multiple organizations, which is just a natural extension >> of a diverse community. As folks contribute to the project, I'd expect the >> PPMC to offer committership to the contributors. >> >> Please do not refer to Twitter specifically, just say that we want to >> increase diversity. >> >> > 2. Improve documentation. >> >> Project documentation is important, but from a community perspective, it >> is more important to have all processes documented well: how to contribute, >> how to merge, notes for first time committers, how to cut a release, check >> licenses. We need to make sure all this is in place once we suggest >> graduation. >> >> >> > 3. First Apache release >> >> When is the first release due? it would be good for this community to >> release sooner rather later. I'd expect multiple releases upon graduation. >> I think I'd just say "Release successfully". >> >> > >> > >> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >> aware >> > >> > of? >> > >> > None >> > >> > How has the community developed since the last report? >> > >> > 1. Increase in contributions from community. >> > >> >> How do we measure this? Here are a few suggestions: >> >> - Number of messages to the list >> - Number of jiras created/resolved >> - Number of individual contributors >> >> > 2. Lots of engagement on documentation. >> > >> >> What are you using to determine this? Mailing list discussion or jira? >> >> There are other interesting threads going on too, like transactions and >> event sourcing. >> >> > 3. Improved responsiveness of committers to community members >> > >> >> I'd phrase this differently. I'd say something like: >> >> Increased traffic on the mailing list, in particular, due to committers >> engaging more actively with contributors. >> >> > >> > How has the project developed since the last report? >> > >> > 1. Documentation has improved for project build and project deployment. >> > Added more information on community page. >> > >> >> Please try to be a bit more specific. >> >> > 2. Involved more discussion of new ideas and bring in new features. >> Include >> > major discussions like 'transaction support', 'batch commit' .etc. >> >> Ok, I see you talked about other threads here. >> >> > >> > 3. First release and repackaging of the project under apache namespace >> are >> > >> > being discussed, such as: >> > >> > - Pull requests for repackaging. >> > >> > - Twitter folks are working on porting twitter's bk version back to >> > community >> >> It is a bit unclear why this is important, and I'd again avoid referring >> to a specific company if possible. >> >> If there is a major change happening and the community is all involved, >> then I'd mention it, but as stated it sounds like this is relevant to the >> BookKeeper community, although it affects this community because of the >> dependency. >> >> > >> > - Expect to cut a release on Nov. >> >> We should mention this above when we refer to the first release. I'd also >> be interested in knowing why the delay, what is holding it, and who is the >> release manager. We don't necessarily need to add it to the report, >> although more detail isn't bad. >> >> -Flavio >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi Jia, >> >> >> >> I'd suggest that you put a draft together and share on the list so >> that we >> >> can comment before posting on the wiki. >> >> >> >> -Flavio >> >> >> >>> On 27 Oct 2016, at 16:44, Jia Zhai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi Guys, >> >>> If there is an opportunity, I would like to have a try for this >> month. :) >> >>> >> >>> Thanks a lot. >> >>> -Jia >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >> >> >> >
