On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > Regarding Quickstep. I am a mentor. (One mentor resigned earlier this > year, but the other mentor, Roman, is sufficiently engaged.) > > I am concerned that Quickstep is not going to graduate. They are > functioning well as an academic project, as evidenced by papers at top > conferences[1], but all of their contributors are from the same > university department. They have made a few efforts at community > building, but do not seem to be building a user base, or attracting > outside contributions. > > (Note that traffic for July and August is lower than usual, due to > their contributors being in academia. Traffic on the dev list should > pick up somewhat in September.) > > Embrace of Apache has been half-hearted. Note, for instance, that > their twitter account [2] still references their pre-Apache home page > [3] rather than their Apache page [4]. > > Quickstep made their first release in March 2017 but have not made > further releases. I am going encourage them to make a new release > soon. That will stimulate some community activity. But I am dubious > that this will attract outside contributors.
Basically, I'm +1 on every single point that Julian makes, but having said this I'm unsure as to where can we go from here. In the past we typically shied away from setting deadlines for certain milestones in community development within podlings. This, in my view, somewhat encouraged this phenomenon of an "eternal podling" (active enough not to be in the attic, not active/ApacheWay'y enough to graduate). I feel like Quickstep, for example, can exist in this state indefinitely. Thanks, Roman. > Julian > > [1] http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p663-patel.pdf > > [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheQuickstep > > [3] http://quickstep.cs.wisc.edu/ > > [4] http://quickstep.apache.org/ > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 10:17 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On 26/08/18 02:30, Justin Mclean wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> >> I’ve discussed this some on the ODF toolkit dev list. Development was >> >> recently moved to Git. The Incubator needs to decide if we will turnover >> >> the domains that were donated in 2011 by IBM(?) to the only consistent >> >> developer. If that is true then we can quickly let them retire, but >> >> survive on Github. >> > >> > I also saw you mentioned it in a previous incubator report for the >> > podling. What are the domain names in question? I think doing as you >> > suggested sounds like a good idea do you want to take that back to the >> > PPMC and discuss and/or vote on doing that. >> > >> > Any other IPMC members think differently? >> >> The podling PMC can make a recommendation but the decision to release a >> domain name to a third party needs the approval of VP Brand Management. >> >> We also need to find the transfer agreements (if any) for those domains >> to see what the ASF agreed to at the time of donation. It is not unheard >> of for such agreements to include a clause that ownership reverts to the >> donor if the podling does not graduate. >> >> Mark >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
