Hi Julian, I am an active member but mostly just admin stuff at this point; not able to provide much development support. I agree with Trevor's assessment that the hardest part has been trying to get a release together for review by Apache. There's a lot of history there I won't get into but I know there is a current effort underway to try again.
- Frank On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:52 AM Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Based on what I've seen from the project for the last couple of years, > here's my short synopsis of the status wrt graduating. > > To graduate, a project must cut an official release. This is the main point > holding SDAP back from graduation. Apache as an organization was designed > for creating and releasing Java projects, SDAP is a Python project. (There > are Python projects elsewhere in the ASF, but I will stand by my original > statement, that Java is first class, everything else should adapt to Java). > SDAP as a community has focused the majority of its cycles to supporting > existing deployments of their software as opposed to refactoring to conform > with ASF things. I don't think there exists undue stress from the ASF to > conform- just a lack of documentation for non-Java paths. > > My recommendation in terms of cutting a release (and thus removing the > largest hurdle to graduation) would be to > 1. call a code freeze > 2. tag / create a zip file of the current code base. > 3. have various PPMC member test the code (what ever that means in relation > to SDAP) > 4. vote > 5.manually push the zip file to whatever repository that is needed. > > I know there are lots of maven plugins that automate #5, that will be > effectively unusable since this isn't a Java project. Just get ahold of > someone at Infra and ask them what you need to do to manually release a > source tar ball. Then document it, maybe put it on the website- and make a > plan to do it again once a year to keep the board off your back. I know > your real life users don't care about official releases anyway, so it's > just a formality that has to happen every so often. > > My .02 > > tg > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 1:17 PM Justin Mclean <jmcl...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Julian, > > > > Thanks for reaching out to the SDAP project, I also think it time this > > project needs to consider graduating or the other option is retirement > from > > the ASF. > > > > Kind Regards, > > Justin > > >
