Hi Kudu developer community, We had an interesting discussion on Slack this last Tuesday about growing the community and I wanted to share some of the takeaways with the list. For anyone interested in the full-fidelity details of the discussion, it is temporarily archived (subject to the free Slack instance history limit of 10K messages) on the Kudu Slack instance in the #community-discuss channel, available for perusal at your leisure.
Following are the high-level takeaways from our meeting: Recent updates on previously-discussed action items: 1. KUDU-2402: Gerrit / GitHub integration sign-in bug - fixed 2. KUDU-2411: Java/Maven test KuduMiniCluster with binary artifacts (for testing use only by external projects) - Grant Henke made significant progress refactoring the Java MiniCluster to enable this from the Java side as well as related Java build work with the migration from Maven to Gradle - Mike Percy posted a WIP patch for the relocatable binary artifact build work @ https://gerrit.cloudera.org/c/11377/ and worked on a POC for the location / unpacking portion of the integration posted @ https://github.com/mpercy/resource-jar-tools -- we will try to finish this integration in the next cycle (details below) Current action items based on the Slack discussion on Tuesday: 1. KUDU-2402: Java/Maven test KuduMiniCluster with binary artifacts -- Mike Percy and Brian McDevitt volunteered to work together to design / write / integrate the remaining pieces of this. 2. Docker container to ease demos and also help bootstrap developers -- Grant Henke and Attila Bukor volunteered to investigate this. 3. Write and solicit the writing of use-case oriented blog posts -- Attila Bukor volunteered to write a blog post with a "call for blog posts" from people working with Kudu today 4. Update the docs to explain how to contribute a blog post on the Kudu blog -- Attila Bukor volunteered to do this 5. Regarding conference talks: Encourage developers and users to submit more use case oriented talks, especially where the talk is recorded and the slides are posted, since those types of talks age well -- no particular person is assigned to this Folks seemed to think this was a productive discussion and felt it would be a good idea to follow this up with another sync up in a month. Looking at the calendar, that would appear to be just before Christmas. In my experience a lot of people are busy or out of the office in the 1-2 weeks leading up to Christmas and New Year's Eve, so I'm inclined to suggest we wait until early January 2019 to do another real-time virtual meetup on these topics. In the meantime, let's use Slack and the dev list to coordinate on these action items. Please let me know if I missed anything. Thanks, Mike
