Hi Folks,

Please respond to emails here and discuss the podling. In order to move to the 
incubator we need to start talking.

> On Jun 5, 2017, at 1:15 PM, Matteo Merli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I hope everyone already subscribed this mailing list already.

Several iCLAs were processed by the ASF secretary on Friday. Accounts should be 
setup and I will add to the LDAP groups tomorrow.

> 
> 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

The proposal requested a JIRA which I requested and is now available at 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PULSAR/

If the project wishes to switch to Github issues that would be fine.

> 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.

We need to have a discussion on this. We can discuss Consensus as part of the 
discussion.

> 
> 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.

If you want to do a release on the old infrastructure then perhaps that is 
first.

> 
> 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

Regards,
Dave


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