-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:57:11 AM Andy Kurth wrote: > I'd like to begin with a general discussion on the health of the > community. We need to be mindful of the following section from: > http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting > > PMC and committer diversity > > > A healthy project should survive the departure of any single contributor > > or employer of contributors. Healthy projects also serve needs of many > > parties. Thus the ASF prefers that projects have diverse PMCs and > > committerships. IF the PMC has any concerns or perceives a problem with > > the diversity, then the report should include information on the number of > > unique organizations currently represented in its PMC and committership. > > We have not added a new committer in 2 years and have no prospects as far > as I know. This statistic is automatically included in the board report > via a tool used to assist in report generation. These details eventually > get the attention of the board. Not adding new committers over a certain > timespan is not necessarily critical in my opinion, as long as the project > is functioning well and a relatively diverse group of people are regularly > contributing. I'm not sure if this is the case with Apache VCL. If anyone > has any ideas or thoughts regarding this, please share. Also, it may be > helpful to take a look back at: > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/community.html
I share this concern, but I don't really have anything to contribute as to how to address it. It seems that VCL is a complex enough system with a relatively small target audience that the number of people that could be potential committers is somewhat small (compared with more typical open source projects). Of those, most are sysadmins at universities. Getting the buy in of their managers to allow them to regularly spend time contributing to VCL seems to be difficult. > And lastly, a status update of things I have recently been working on: > "Allow customization of notification messages sent to users" ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-919) > Backend is just about done. I'll commit what I have soon. The backend > changes could be released without frontend control being completed since > the functionality should remain unchanged. I did notice some of the email > messages VCL 2.4.2 is sending are no longer accurate as they reference > parts of the frontend which changed. I hope I can start on the frontend side of this next week. Josh - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZnEqIACgkQV/LQcNdtPQP5KgCdEZY5ShNrOP2ZjVIUe80DxyKw e9AAnAl6Kb+BsmDIzIEJr+EctH1LOEuO =h7v1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
