On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> To echo Caleb's post to the HAWQ ML: > > In case you haven't been watching the Apache general list there is an > interesting thread on the Apache Sentry project and their graduation from > incubator. > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201511.mbox/browser > > Lots of discussion on what is required from a community growth perspective > for an incubator. Good lessons to think about as we are trying to build > our own community around Geode and MADlib. > The two biggest challenges IMO facing Geode: 1. Transitioning from an internal closed development model to a public open one 2. Bringing in new project members from outside Pivotal to create a diverse, vibrant community The success or failure of the first impacts the second. The measure of the first is how much discussion and decision making regarding Geode is taking place within Pivotal compared to whats here on the mailing list or JIRA. When the answer is pretty much everything is in the public domain, then you'll have it cracked. Niall > You will also see me heavily advocating Apache Maturity model on > that thread. This is something I'd really like to institute in all of > the projects > I happen to mentor to a point of having a rolling document inside of a > source > tree a'la Groovy: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-groovy/blob/master/MATURITY.adoc > > Thanks, > Roman. >
