Agreed on these points. Happy to help out in brainstorming too
(community growth is super hard)
+1 on the report (I don't read the numbered points in order of
importance, just the three biggest points)
Thanks for putting this together without prodding!
Suneel Marthi wrote:
I don't think its mandatory to list 3 issues - definitely #3 and #1 need to
be flipped.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Ellison Anne Williams<
[email protected]> wrote:
Points well taken.
In terms of issues to address towards graduation, we can remove #2 and flip
#1 and #3. Do we have to have three? If so, any suggestions for an
appropriate third item?
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Tim Ellison<[email protected]>
wrote:
On 30 August 2016 at 17:50, Ellison Anne Williams<[email protected]
wrote:
Hi Mentors,
Can you please review the following draft Pirk podling report for
September? I will post it on the incubator report wiki once everyone is
happy with it.
(This time, I will make sure not to touch anyone's sign off box on the
wiki
:))
Thanks!
Ellison Anne
**********
Pirk
Pirk is a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).
Pirk has been incubating since 2016-06-17. The initial code for Pirk
was
granted on 2016-07-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for
dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache
development process.
2. Establish a process which allows different release cycles for the
core
framework, extensions/adaptors, and additional algorithms.
3. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and
expertise.
I think those issues are fair, but I wouldn't necessarily put them in
that
order.
The project release process is evolving well, I don't see any major
issues
there and it will get easier and better as more are done. Having
different
release cycles for different aspects of the project may well be
desirable,
but I don't really see it as a graduation issue.
Growing the user and development community is definitely a key goal for
Pirk graduation. Personally, I'd move that further up the list. We can
discuss ideas for achieving that too.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have officially welcomed two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel
Marthi).
I think it would be appropriate to mention in the report that Suneel and
I
are mentors. There is still an open opportunity to invite new developers
to be committers and broaden the community diversity.
The mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the
Apache Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also greatly increased
since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project completed it's first release, 0.1.0-incubating, since the
last
report. Additionally, the project has ensured that all dependencies are
compliant with the Apache License version 2.0 and that all code and
documentation artifacts have the correct Apache licensing markings and
notice. The project has also undertaken a refactor of some of the
initial
packages and provided initial streaming implementations.
Date of last release:
August 29, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi) on
August
18, 2016.
Regards,
Tim
