Thanks for the response, Can! That was very helpful information. I appreciate you taking the time to explain and to point me to a specific issue where improvements are being made to the website that relates to my concerns about community health. I will continue to watch the list, and follow some of the tickets a bit more in this area, to see if there's any place for me to help out when I can.
-Christopher On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:08 AM Duru Can Celasun <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
