Apologies for the delay. I'll answer inline. On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, at 10:42, Christopher wrote: > Ping. Are there any active committers at all? Do the devs read the > developer mailing list? > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 10:34 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Are there any committers who can answer my question? Or respond to my > > suggestion? > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:42 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thank you. I have a follow-up question. > > > > > > Is the thrift community dependent on just a few individuals with > > > specific duties? It seems so from the responses.
While nobody is formally assigned any specific duties, it's true that few individuals have the access, know how and experience to handle certain duties. Only a handful of committers are active and due to the multi-language nature of thrift, expertise is usually limited to a few languages each. > > > > > > If that is the case, I would highly encourage the thrift developers to > > > try to grow their community by adding new committers and PMC members, > > > who can perform some of these tasks. Nothing should be dependent on a > > > single individual, or a small group of individuals. Release > > > management, including publishing to Maven Central, should be something > > > that any PMC member can perform. And, responding to questions/issues > > > in a timely manner should be something that is the responsibility of > > > any PMC member or committer. New committers are added every year, but activity levels are not at a level where every single issue can be handled in a timely manner. As for release management, see below. > > > > > > If the problem isn't one of limited responsibility, but rather one of > > > limited expertise, then I would recommend adding some stuff to the > > > thrift website that documents how to perform a release, and try to > > > train other community members with that information. We are working on new version of the website [1] that will update and merge various bits of documentation, particularly about thrift internals, which should make it easier for new contributors to be onboarded. We also have docs for release management [2] but few are familiar with it and it doesn't yet include instructions for language specific package managers. I appreaciate your concerns, we are aware of the problems and there is ongoing work on improving things on all fronts. It simply takes a lot of time as there are only a handful of us and we all work on thrift in our spare time. Best, Can [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4710 [2] https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/doc/ReleaseManagement.md > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM James E. King III <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Sorry Christopher, I founded a new company and haven't had any time for > > > > the > > > > usual duties like this. I'll take care of it this weekend. > > > > > > > > - Jim > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 5:45 PM Jens Geyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I agree, and I already reached out to the maven maintainer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > > > From: Christopher > > > > > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 10:44 PM > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Subject: Please respond to THRIFT-4998 > > > > > > > > > > Can a committer or PMC member please respond to the numerous requests > > > > > for information about the 0.13.0 release artifacts in Maven Central at > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4998 ? > > > > > > > > > > It has been over a week, and nobody is replying to the users who took > > > > > the time to report the issue to the developers. This is a very > > > > > unfriendly way to treat Thrift's user community. > > > > > > > > > > Please respond, somebody. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > >
