On 01/03/17 15:06, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:44:27 +0000, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
Ian's put some notes in but it needs completing.
Where is everyone?
There has been a big dropoff of activity on dev@ in this reporting period.
Thanks. I augmented the report a bit:
How has the community developed since the last report?
List has gone a bit more quiet, while activity on the
Gitter chat https://gitter.im/apache/taverna
has remained at same level. Need to re-focus use of
mailing list and community development.
Comments:
Activity has stalled a bit in the drive towards graduation, as
some (perhaps tedious) IP review remains. Ambition levels
might need adjustment, e.g. don't include all repositories
in graduation to TLP.
Agree there has been a big dropoff in the dev@ activity - not sure how much we
can blame this on the Gitter chat (which has not been as quiet), but we should
refocus our activity here on this list.
Gitter is great for within team discussions but it's pretty opaque to
people outside, which is the value of dev@
I know I am partially to blame as I have not been able to contribute much these
months - it's been quite hectic with work; lots of documents, emails and calls,
and I have not been able to help where I should.
I must admit I have lacked motiviation to help on the remaining IP review -
it's not something that is too easy to pick up late at night when the kids
are at bed.. I might not be alone here - but we can make this manageable by
progressing step by step.
Andy - do you think if we don't include a repository in graduation it would be
easy to add back on later from GitHub? As it's not SVN it is not as easy to
keep around; I know this helped in Jena, where you had some "extra stuff" at an
SVN tag that you could pick up again at a later time. Perhaps we could do some
kind of "legacy" or "sandbox" apache-taverna git repository with specific
branches under there?
At graduation, what is in Apache source code control will need to be
IP-clean. Incubation has more latitude.
There is no distinction of some repos of a TLP being "good" and some
"parking space" that I know of. People are free to pick up Apache code
direct from repos and some notes in a README don't really meet a
reasonable level of notice.
You can keep code elsewhere and contribute later.
Andy
