Hey All - chiming in as an active Spark committer. > The part that disturbs me is that after the vote passed in the > community, and came to the IPMC a mentor is still having to remind > folks that things like strategy and roadmap discussions need to happen > on the mailing list. That's a pretty foundational concept in my mind > for an Apache project.
Henry gave a reminder on the mailing list not because it's a persistent problem but because it never explicitly came up prior to this. We use github for review comments and in one case this week there was a brief discussion that could be interpreted as roadmap - so Henry just gave a reminder not to do that. I can't imagine why any project would *want* to use github review comments for long term roadmap discussion... it's a terrible medium for that anyways! We have a very active developer list and that is where these discussions take place. > The missing account issues are somewhat troubling, but also not really > within the purview of the podling to fix either; though I find it odd > that people committed to the podling (and many initial committers) > haven't asked for their Apache account or needed to use it. This is because those people have still contributed a lot of code via other commiters who merge so it's not an immediate urgency. For perspective I am a committer on two other ASF projects but I've never personally committed code to either - I do it through the more active committers who basically spend all their time merging patches. A few of the initial commiters are not currently active on the project; they've made major contributions over the last few years of development and are committers in recognition of those contributions (see above). Popping up a level. We are happy to have github discussions forward to either our dev- list or a reviews- list or something like that (I beleive Matei is setting that up now). If IPCM folks want to debate whether we should *have* to do that, it seems sensible to fork a thread and discuss elsewhere. If IPMC folks want to debate whether github should be allowed at all, I also think it's better discussed outside of this graduation thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
