Just a last reminder for those interested -- we are kicking off this conversation in about 25 minutes in the #community-discuss channel on Slack.
Regards, Mike On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:02 PM Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >>
