I think Sentry community has made great progress in both code contributions as well as community building. We have made 5 releases each driven by a different Release manager, added 7 committers from diverse organizations. Our PPMC is quite diverse too. And I think we have a healthy community which fosters new contributors to have sustained contributions and becoming committers eventually. I think we also have done good job community building and evangelizing. We had presence at many major conferences including ApacheCon, Strata. We also were involved in several meetups across the globe. Recently, last week, we had presence at the Open Source Day Hackathon at the Grace Hopper Conference too spreading our open source love. And we are continuously looking for opportunities to grow and be a welcoming place for all contributors.
Our mentors have stepped up previously to identify some mistakes and make some suggestions. And I think community has executed on those suggestions [1][2][3] We will continue executing even after graduation. To sum up, I believe we have come a long way and are ready[4][5][6] to graduate. I can start a graduation discussion with a proposed resolution if you all agree it is the time. Would love to hear from David and Joe too. [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Project+Status+Reports (See July, August and September reports this year) [2] Examples of discussions on dev list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sentry-dev/201510.mbox/%3CB957EE1AFDEBFD4B934BCF11804A23DC032CA85E%40shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sentry-dev/201509.mbox/%3CCACMN7iwVZ%3Drj2NMsHWqL9MHp%3DzopM0Aso2a0Qtkyt05xhibDkA%40mail.gmail.com%3E [3]: Project roadmap: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Sentry+Roadmap+and+ideas [4]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#checklist [5]: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Graduating+from+the+Incubator [6]: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/sentry.html Thanks! On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]> wrote: > Sravya, David - > > Could either one of you outline what objective criteria is yet to be met by > the project so that it can be ready for graduation? Pardon my lack of > understanding of something that may be obvious to you, but I see a fully > functional project community that is trying their best to make progress > while doing a great job at self governance. What am I missing? > > Regards, > Arvind Prabhakar > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Sravya Tirukkovalur <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Thanks for writing this up David! It was great meeting you yesterday, and > > it is always good to get some face time with the community too! > > > > Thanks for acknowledging the progress and giving some valuable > suggestions > > on community building and transparency! > > > > I will follow up on the action items in separate email threads once I get > > back home from the conference. > > > > Regards, > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:03 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sravya Tirukkovalur > > > -- Sravya Tirukkovalur
