Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote on 12/03/2018 10:51:24
AM:
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 4:00 PM David P Grove <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ...it
> > seems that our release process is being impeded by a lack of engagement
> > from eligible voters on the IPMC mailing list...
>
> I agree, and besides having more mentors one way to fix that is to
> graduate ;-)
+1
>
> From my point of view as one incubation mentor there are two things
> that need to be addressed before graduation, and both might not need a
> lot of work, I just might not have the right information to consider
> these issues solved.
> ...
> 2) Clarifying where and how releases happen, last time I looked (2-3
> months ago?) some "releases" were still happening directly from GitHub
> repositories without Incubator PMC votes.
>
Agreed. There is still work to be done to formalize and automate our
releases. This is especially true around the reality of users expecting to
consume pre-built artifacts from dockerhub, maven, npmjs, pypi, homebrew,
etc. IMO the project does not yet have a good handle on how we get from
official Apache source releases to the artifacts that users will actually
consume from these diverse channels.
A vanishingly small fraction of users actually want (or are even able to)
to take a source release and build it themselves, especially across all the
different technologies that make up OpenWhisk.
--dave
