Hi, Thanks for posting this to the dev list. > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Building the developer community > 2. Outreach at events outside the Apache ecosystem to inform and invite > participation in the project > 3. Better leadership of the project itself IMO Leadership is not the issue, having the committers/PPMC involved in the mailing list seems to be more of an issue. Apache projects don’t have leaders as such, but the PPMC can lead by example by being more active here.
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > Committers are still very interested in seeing this podling develop. Is this an issue the board needs to be aware of? Not really IMO. The two issues I would possibly list are a) there may be off list activity / lack of discussion on the mailing list b) user's pull requests not being address in a timely way. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Slowly - mainly 4 individuals that are contributing in spurts of activity. > This needs to become consistent with better online leadership. There has also been increased user interest and questions on the mailing list. I’d would drop the sentence re “better online leadership”. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Technical contributions have been made and will continue to be made but > there is a need engage and articulate the vision and architecture more > actively on the mailing lists. +1 to that. > > Date of last release: > > Not released yet - had discussed an initial release at the end of this year > but will need to see a stronger ecosystem develop to facilitate such a goal. Why not just make a 0.1 alpha stye release? I don't see any need to wait for the ecosystem to grow and making a release could actually facilitate that. > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 10 months ago Is this actually the case? AFAIK no committers or PMC member have been voted in past the initial group. Thanks, Justin
