I created a JIRA ticket for the website. If anyone has specific ideas for it, please fell free to mention/implement them. Otherwise I'll try to use/customize the apache-website-template available at https://github.com/apache/apache-website-template/ as soon as possible, but definitely before the next report is due
Adina On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Puja Valiyil <[email protected]> wrote: > David and I tried to compile a process for creating a release -- we didn't > get that far. The main thing blocking us at this point is the whole > process for signing a release, no one we knew had a public key and then > David and I got lost/confused when trying to generate and register one. > All of this sounds borderline embarrassing since there is a lot of > documentation out there but we didn't have time to fully digest it in > time. > I'm also not clear on what else we would need to do besides run mvn > release, like compile release notes, etc. I'm sorry if there's a lot of > documentation exactly detailing what we need to do. > Other than that, I think we've made a lot of progress as a community this > past month. We've had a lot of new contributors, had a lot of new bugs > reported by new end users, and have closed out a lot of issues. > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Heya Rya! > > > > We're about 5-6 weeks from our next scheduled turn for the IPMC's board > > report. > > > > How are folks doing? The project sounds a bit quiet to me, but I'm not > > sure how much of that is me being sure to look in the right places. > > > > To Review, here are your self-identified three most important objectives: > > > > 1. Populate the website for the project > > 2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors > can > > become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the > > community. > > 3. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as > > part of the Apache Foundation > > > > At least to me, numbers 1 and 3 seem like big barriers to getting new > > folks brought in. Anyone have a list of the blockers keeping us from > > those two? I tried searching the jira for relevant tickets, but didn't > > find any. > > > > -Sean > > > -- Dr. Adina Crainiceanu http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/
