On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Chip, > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Chip Childers <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:24:54AM +0530, Afkham Azeez wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Chip Childers <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> > > How do the active committers / PPMC members feel Stratos is doing with >> > > diversifying beyond WSO2? >> > > >> > >> > All of the commits so far have been from WSO2 people. However, there is >> > healthy participation on the dev & PPMC mailing lists by non-WSO2 folks >> > from several organizations. Is this going to be a barrier to graduation? >> > >> > Azeez >> >> I'm not currently suggesting anything (directly), but instead asking the >> active >> members of this community if they feel that the Apache Stratos community >> has demonstrated that it has (and will continue) to build an "Open and >> Diverse community". Certainly, you can read into this question that I'm >> personally unsure about the diversity aspects. >> >> The incubator.a.o graduation guide has a great section on the reasoning >> and qualitative perspective that the IPMC will use when considering >> the graduation proposal. [1] >> >> What are other's thoughts? Should Stratos work to bring more active >> non-WSO2 contributors into the community? > > > As current committers and PPMC members we tried our best to attract people > out of WSO2. For an example, that's the sole purpose of doing Google > hangouts weekly (where we dedicated lot of time to explain about Stratos) > and also the Cloud bar-camp. > > It's bit unfortunate, we didn't receive any code contributions from > community outside WSO2. But fingers crossed. > We have got very good response from many other parties in the Cloud bar-camp. Luca and team from Cisco said they are actively testing Stratos. I asked them to start communication through the dev list, I think they will. Cisco gave very good feedback on new architecture of the Startos which we currently working on. Also Peter Linnell (one of our PPMC) and team from SUSE also contributing testing Stratos specially top of SUSE. They already gave some feedback on the dev list. And then the Rackpace and the jclouds team also discuss how they can contribute to Stratos. Everett from Rackspace already show his interest on adding/cording Rackspace support for Stratos. IMO, I think we already have very good contribution from non-WSO2 parties. And we will keep encouraging on this, specially code contribution. > > >> Would that help ensure the >> longevity of the project, if WSO2 were to decide to stop paying many of >> you to work on it? Is the community comfortable that this will come in >> time, and therefore might want to move forward to ask to graduate? >> >> -chip >> >> >> >> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Nirmal > > Nirmal Fernando. > PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, > Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. > > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/ > -- Lakmal Warusawithana Software Architect; WSO2 Inc. Mobile : +94714289692 Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
