Everyone, All projects in ASF has to report their activities to the Board. Incubating projects will report to the Incubator project, which in turn reports to the Board. This is to foster the reporting mentality in new projects, and also give the Incubator PMC an idea if podlings are making progress.
The first 3 months as a podling, as well as the first 3 months as a top-level project, we report every month. After that, it is a quarterly schedule, unless otherwise requested by Board/Incubator but that is quite rare. Reports are important, but keep in mind that the world doesn't stop if it doesn't happen or the report is not of the best quality. Everyone makes mistakes, forgets and there is a general forgiving attitude. So, what does the report covers? * Community changes, such as new committers, PPMC members * Progress, such as mailing list activity (up/down), JIRA issues solved (up/down) * Issues needing assistance, if we need help from someone else, such as Legal, Infra and so on. * Releases The report should not contain technical details that only users/developers of the project would understand. It should not contain individual names, unless extraordinary reasons for it. We operate as a unit, a single community and we all own the responsibility of this project. Finally, Mentors are not expected to write the report, but we will assist to fine tune it. Check https://lists.apache.org/list.html and search for reports on dev@ lists (top level projects and/or podlings) to get a general idea. The report goes into this page; https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/January2017 and it has a template for Weex (and all the others) in it. I suggest that a Draft is written and proposed on this list first. Any Volunteers? Incubator has also released this timeline, in case you didn't noticed; Wed January 04 -- Podling reports due by end of day Sun January 08 -- Shepherd reviews due by end of day Sun January 08 -- Summary due by end of day Tue January 10 -- Mentor signoff due by end of day Wed January 11 -- Report submitted to Board Wed January 18 -- Board meeting Hope this helps. -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
