Hi folks, I had the chance to meet and talk with Sravya today at ApacheCon and talk about the project, and I wanted to bring that conversation back to the list. Others should feel free to weigh in, but mainly didn't want to just be discussing this in isolation.
First, we discussed how the project has changed over the past few months, and I think that we agreed that we think it's moving in the right direction, with a lot more obvious discussions happening on the dev list, but still plenty of room to improve. We also talked about some things we can do going forward to move the project further along, and walked away with some action items. 1. Start writing up quick summaries from Hangouts/phone calls that are happening regarding the project, so that everyone has some visibility into what is happening. We also discussed the possibility of the project holding a regularly scheduled hangout or IRC meeting that folks can attend. 2. Reach out to mentors for proactive help on growing the community. (I explicitly volunteered Joe Brockmeier and myself to jump on a hangout/webex/IRC/ML Discussion to see if we can help in this regard) We also talked about the graduation process, and talked about what needs to happen in that process when we are ready for it. We briefly touched on project diversity, and what we both viewed as the current status of the project. --David
