>-----Original Message----- >From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:04 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Board report draft > >As a general comment Wookie reports tend to be a bit wordy. Bullets >are usually sufficient. That being said, I think having the detail is >good, even if only for our own records. > >Perhaps move the bullets from the end to a summary section at the >start and have the wordy version in a details section for interested >folk.
+1 > >I've added your text (with my presumably non-controversial changes) to >the wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/May2012 > >Other edits should be done there. > >On 30 April 2012 11:21, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> How's this look? >> >> -------------------- >> Wookie >> >> Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy >> widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets >> specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs >> such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial. >> >> Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009. >> >> In our last report we identified our target for this period was to identify >ways to >> improve the diversity of the Wookie community. >> >> Since our last report we added a new committer (Tien) and we are now >diverse >> enough to graduate (6 committers from 4 organisations), although we are >still a small >> community. >> >> We feel that graduation of the project will also help attract new >contributors, and >> we will seek approval to graduate during the next quarter, after the 0.10 >release >> which is imminent. >> >> As well as graduation, we have agreed that having more frequent scheduled >> releases, coordinated with Apache Rave may also help with community >development. >> >> Matt Franklin has joined Wookie as a mentor and is active in helping with >this process. >> >> We've also created a lot of detailed documentation on the release process >> and are encouraging more committers take a turn at being release manager >> to both test the documentation and to spread the experience of doing this >more >> widely. >> >> Our first release under the new schedule will be 15th May. >> >> Another approach we're (still) looking at is how we can use Wookie to >deploy widgets >> that relate to ASF processes and activities as a way of raising awareness and >interest; >> we've done some experiments with Widgets using the Jira API as a starting >point for a >> demonstrator and we may want to explore this further. >> >> We also have a GSoC student project with Wookie this year. >> >> Since February 2012: >> >> - 0.9.2 release >> - Hoang Minh Tien added as Committer >> - Matt Franklin added as Mentor >> - Improved release documentation >> - GSoC student project >> >> Next steps: >> >> - implement new release schedule >> - 0.10.0 release using new release process >> - start graduation process after release >> - ASF Widgets demo >> >> Issues before graduation: >> >> - none >> >> Signed off by mentor: >> >> > > > >-- >Ross Gardler (@rgardler) >Programme Leader (Open Development) >OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
