Hello, I think a better overall community engagement could be achieved by promoting diversity.
Thanks. On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, 15:53 Stamatis Zampetakis, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Tim, > > This is not about the metrics and how to make the numbers look better but > rather how to better engage with the community and improve the transparency > of communications. > > For instance, I am subscribed to the dev list in an attempt to follow what > is happening with the project. However, at the moment I have no visibility > on what's going on. I don't know what are the major milestones of the > project; I don't know anything about the roadmap; I am not aware if help is > needed; I am not aware of the hot topics that are being worked on; I don't > see how people coordinate with each other. > > Maybe all the above can be found in GitHub and if that's the case we're > good and there's nothing to worry about especially if overall activity is > low anyways. > > My main point is to keep communications as open as possible to allow for > anyone to participate and contribute. > > Best, > Stamatis > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 3:15 PM Tim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is a small amount of communication that happens on the XTable > slack, > > GitHub issues, and the bi-weekly community syncs. Should that be moved to > > the dev-list or is there some way to account for this in the metrics? > > > > -Tim > > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > The most concerning for me is the very low activity of the dev mailing > > > list. This is the primary way of communication in Apache projects and > > > there have been hardly any messages since the beginning of the > > > project. > > > I would like to highlight that communications in internal channels & > > > DM should be avoided because they are against the Apache way and also > > > make it hard to attract new contributors. > > > The project is still at its early stages but any discussion that > > > concerns the project (even if it is between two people) should happen > > > in the dev list. Open discussions encourage more people to participate > > > in decisions about the future of the project and make the community > > > members feel more inclusive. > > > > > > Best, > > > Stamatis > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > The Incubator team worked on a tool to generate podling health > > > > reports. We will run this every month to get some metrics about the > > > > podlings. > > > > > > > > Here's the health report for XTable (on 2025-10-31): > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator/blob/master/tools/health/reports/XTable.md > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > JB > > > > > >
