Re: [DISCUSS] Community engagement

2016-11-14 Thread Ryan Blue
Thanks for responding, everyone! First, on the subject of the Attic: I don't think Avro is headed to the Attic soon, but I think that the current level of engagement is too low to refresh the active part of the community -- we don't have enough votes for a release and it takes a long time for

Re: [DISCUSS] Community engagement

2016-11-14 Thread Doug Cutting
I disagree that Avro is heading towards the Attic. Its rate of contribution has been slow but steady for years. That's the nature of this project. It had a larger number of contributions in its first few years, when new languages and substantial features were being added, but since then, we see

[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-1960) avro-tools should not display log4j warning when started with java -jar

2016-11-14 Thread JIRA
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1960?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Clément MATHIEU updated AVRO-1960: -- Attachment: AVRO-1960.patch This simple log4j.properties file replicates the one provided by

[jira] [Created] (AVRO-1960) avro-tools should not display log4j warning when started with java -jar

2016-11-14 Thread JIRA
Clément MATHIEU created AVRO-1960: - Summary: avro-tools should not display log4j warning when started with java -jar Key: AVRO-1960 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1960 Project: Avro

Re: [DISCUSS] Community engagement

2016-11-14 Thread suraj acharya
Hi, I agree that there is a delay in code reviews and that is one reason for the decline in participation. Regarding the testing I agree we are a bit shorthanded. We need to setup pre-commit tests and run some more testing regularly. I agree with your problem of docker and I have seen the same

Re: [DISCUSS] Community engagement

2016-11-14 Thread Zoltan Ivanfi
Hi, I agree with the proposed changes. Regarding the mailing lists, I would like to suggest to separate not only the different languages from each other, but also the discussions from the pull requests, test results and JIRA notifications. When those are mixed together, discussions easily get