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I wanted to start the discussion on multiple points for onboarding into the incubator. First of all, which tools we want to keep using when moving the development over at the ASF. In particular, we need to chose about: 1. Git repository and committer workflow 2. Github issues vs JIRA 3. Jenkins vs Travis for CI The support for using Github tools for Apache project has been a recent addition. Masakazu pointed to me that it was actually discussed at the latest ApacheCon (https://youtu.be/yWurOHvm5WM?t=1078) and that right now INFRA is supporting projects to use Github as the primary repository and issues. I think for us it would make sense to continue using Github tools that has worked reasonably well in the past and it will be frictionless both from our perspective as for potential contributors. The other point would be to directly transfer the repository from "yahoo/pulsar" to "apache/incubator-pulsar", instead of creating a new repo. The advantage would be to keep all the current issues/PRs, plus people that are subscribed to the repository events. I think that the logistic for this would be to give access to yahoo/pulsar repo to ASF INFRA so that they can perform the switch. About the SGA from Yahoo, Joe can you also update here whenever the grant is submitted? Finally, when repository and grant aspects are resolved, I would suggest to make one last release (1.18), ASAP, before moving the code over to the ASF. The reason is that we have already accumulated lot of changes and fixes in the current master and that it will take us some amount of time to prepare well for an official release within the incubator. We will need to sort lot of details and possibly make multiple iterations before we can be ready for a release. So, release what we have right now, and then concentrate in making a proper release in the incubator (detached from the amount of "features" contained). Any thoughts / opinions? Please also raise any other point or question that I have missed. Matteo
