RE: Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Rohit Jain
Here is how Kudu has documented all their participation http://kudu.apache.org/community.html We need to do the same. Rohit -Original Message- From: Gunnar Tapper [mailto:tapper.gun...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 1:00 PM To: dev@trafodion.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re:

Re: Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi Hans, all, Diversity can come from any angle: company affiliation, software developers vs consultants/promotors etc. I suggest to take a look beyond the box and assess everyone participating regarding their potential. Yes, solicitation contributors from other ASF projects is a potential

Re: Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Hans Zeller
Hi Pierre, thank you for bringing this up. I agree that we need to consider new things to do to increase our diversity. You are familiar with the Apache community, do you have any observations or suggestions? When I look at the just-graduated Apache Kudu, I see that it also lacks diversity, but

Re: Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Pierre Smits
HI Ming, Having confirmation of the contributor regarding his/her intent to do more (through confirmation of the iCLA accepted by the Secretary of the ASF) is enough to get the person listed in the https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TRAFODION/Contributors. As you can learn form the

RE: Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Liu, Ming (Ming)
New contributor need time to get started, Trafodion is a very complex system software. So it will be helpful to have some JIRAs that are simple enough for beginners to work on. Documentation is also a very good starting point. I notice the JIRA can has label as 'newbie', I just create JIRA

RE: Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Jin, Jian (Seth)
It seem the contributor list is out of date, the contributor list should be longer than that. Br, Seth -Original Message- From: Pierre Smits [mailto:pierre.sm...@gmail.com] Sent: 2016年7月28日 15:40 To: dev@trafodion.incubator.apache.org Subject: Working towards graduation Hi all, With

Working towards graduation

2016-07-28 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, With 2 releases out since the start under the flag of ASF Incubation, we are on the right track building our experience regarding release management in relation to compliance to the ASF rules and guidelines. I suggest we now - while not forgetting to work on improving our code base for