Hi devs, If you also subscribe the user mailing list, you might see the mail 'Is trident dead? <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/storm-user/201610.mbox/%3CCAP3bR3xmOb=pMXa=aj--_=j=bqoakqytdwezfxysxsufdky...@mail.gmail.com%3E> '.
I don't remember (and also don't mind) the origin question and following talks, but while talking, he use the word "commit-wise active" which seems to be the thing we may need to think about. (even I replied the opposite to user mailing list.) Apart from contributing features, open source project itself needs some efforts to maintain and publicize. While efforts for former is happening continuously, but I don't see great efforts for latter, for months. We have very limited resource and it could be a way to maximize our efficiency, but it is clearly showing the downsides: community is losing activity, and individual contributors left and don't come. IMHO, we may need to think about below questions clearly. There're multiple subjects so we may want to classify and may discuss. Most of questions may need to think deeply and not be easy to answer. - What's the project's goal? In other words, what's the reason we have been putting great efforts? - Are we documenting or publicizing our efforts, especially new features pretty well? - Why our heavy individual contributors or even PMCs leave the community, and why we haven't seen new heavy contributors? - How we bring back activity of Storm community: users and contributors? - How long is the release cycle of minor version of Storm so that users can take the benefit of our efforts? - Are our contribution / merge / release process pragmatic? Thanks, Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
