On 01/10/16 01:14, Ellison Anne Williams wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Please find the draft podling report for October below -- please let me > know if you have any comments/suggestions/questions. I will post it to the > incubator wiki when everyone is happy with it. > > Thanks! > > Ellison Anne
FYI the layout got messed up on my client, so I hit return a few times to reformat the text below... > PirkPirk 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. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise. > > 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for > dependable release cycles in a manner consistent with the Apache > development process. > > 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on > the website and in the code base. > > 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 attracted a couple of new contributors since the last report. > The mailing list activity, pull requests, and page views to the Apache > Pirk website (via Google Analytics) have also increased since the last > report. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > The project is in the process of completing it's second release, > 0.2.0-incubating. The project has also undertaken a refactor of some of > the packages and drivers and added additional user/developer > documentation on the website. > > 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, both > mentors) on August 18, 2016. +1 from me. I think we are well on the the way to achieving goal two, the repeatable release process/schedule, and as you have written, it is now a case of focusing on user and developer community to ensure the project is sustainable in the long run. Regards, Tim
