Dear Kudu contributors and interested folks, Just a reminder that we are doing a "virtual meetup" next week to discuss how we can grow the Kudu community. Details below.
Hope to see you there! Mike On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:30 AM Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kudu dev community, > > I'm posting this to dev@ and BCC'ing user@ -- let's follow up on the Kudu > dev@ list. > > Following up on some previous email threads on the topic of growing the > Kudu community, I would like to know if Kudu developers / interested > community members would be interested in having a real-time chat meeting > (online) to discuss progress and continue those discussions. > > *What*: The agenda would be to evaluate progress on and discuss action > items in service of the following goals: > > 1. Increase adoption of Kudu in general (and remove barriers to > adoption) > 2. Increase the number of contributors to Kudu, especially committers > > In addition to reviewing and updating the list of action items, I'd also > like to get volunteers for things that need help to get completed (or > started). > > *When / Where*: Let's meet in the #kudu-general chat room on the getkudu > <https://getkudu-slack.herokuapp.com/> Slack instance for one hour > starting at 10am PDT on Tuesday, November 13. > > For those who can't attend in real-time, the chat history will be > available and I'll send notes to the mailing list afterward, so we can also > discuss the same topics over email after the meeting. > > Please let me know if this sounds like something you'd like to take part > in or if you have a suggestion for a better way to coordinate this effort, > want to propose an alternative time, etc. > > Please find below the current list of action items compiled by Grant and > me. > > Thanks, > Mike > > -- > > *Being worked on:* > > - KUDU-2411 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-2411>: Binary > artifacts (Linux / macOS) on Maven to enable a Kudu MiniCluster usable by > external projects - Grant / Mike > - KUDU-2402 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-2402>: Gerrit > Sign In UI bug: we upgraded Gerrit to 2.4.15 but unfortunately it didn't > fix the issue (we thought this was in the list of fixed issues for 2.4.6). > We are going to try updating some RewriteRules next - Mike working with > Cloudera IT, who hosts this infrastructure > > *Not being worked on:* > > *Increase number of contributors* > > - Support GitHub pull requests (forward to Gerrit?) > - Create more contributor-focused FAQs and docs (wiki?) > - Code overview and C++ guidelines article targeted at Java developers > - Quarterly email to the dev/user lists with links to beginner / > newbie jiras > - Video walkthrough of Kudu code base, including how to set up a dev > env with <insert C++ code editor or IDE of choice here> > - Simplify CONTRIBUTING.adoc > > *Increase adoption* > > *Non-product* > > - Binary artifacts as part of the Apache Kudu release process > - DEB / RPM packages > - Tarball releases > - Ports / Homebrew integration for macOS > - Full fledged demos / application examples > - Easy ingest tools for demos, i.e. CLI tools for CSV -> Kudu or > similar > - Schedule regular meetups / hold more talks > - Improve client APIs to make integration easier / more powerful (need > specific ideas) > - More blog posts, including invited blog posts > - More documentation / blog posts about existing integrations that > people may not know how to use > > *Product improvements* > > For now, let's leave big-ticket features off this list -- most are pretty > obvious and they'll take up all the oxygen in the room. Let's reserve this > section for relatively low-effort and high-reward quality-of-life > improvements to the product. > > - TBD > > >
