February board report

[Tom White <to...@gmail.com>]

I've added the following report to the wiki at
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2011. Please let me know if
there are any changes that you'd like to see - have I missed anything?
The report is due by 9 February.

Thanks,
Tom

----

Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud.

Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status
information is available at
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.

Progress since the last report (November 2010): We have made the third
incubator release (0.3.0-incubating). We continue to get contributions
from outside the initial committer base, and have added two committers
(Andrei Savu and Lars George). Whirr is being covered at meetups (e.g.
at the jclouds meetup in January). We have added a new service (HBase)
bringing the number of supported services to four: Hadoop, HBase,
Cassandra, ZooKeeper.

Plans for the next period:
* Encourage community growth.
* Do a fourth release.
* Enhance the existing services, and add more services and cloud providers.

Top three items to resolve before graduation:
* Increase community involvement in the project
* Make several incubating releases (Done)
* Support at least three services on Whirr (Done)

Re: February board report

[Adrian Cole <ad...@jclouds.org>]

yeah +1 on this idea.

Tom, you've grown a diverse community with users and contributions coming
from different legal entities. Good job!

-a

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Lars George <la...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think has that already and then some. Given the background of the
> committers and their involvement in various other ASF projects I think Whirr
> to be very mature and well positioned.
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:28, Tom White <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> >> +1 Looks great to me.
> >>
> >> Question - at what point is whirr ready to graduate? Seems community
> >> growth is our last remaining graduation issue, any insight into at
> >> what point we're large enough?
> >
> > I think it's more about diversity than size. This page on the
> > incubator website has some useful information on this topic:
> > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> >
> >>
> >> Patrick
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tom White <to...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I've added the following report to the wiki at
> >>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2011. Please let me know if
> >>> there are any changes that you'd like to see - have I missed anything?
> >>> The report is due by 9 February.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>> ----
> >>>
> >>> Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud.
> >>>
> >>> Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status
> >>> information is available at
> >>> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.
> >>>
> >>> Progress since the last report (November 2010): We have made the third
> >>> incubator release (0.3.0-incubating). We continue to get contributions
> >>> from outside the initial committer base, and have added two committers
> >>> (Andrei Savu and Lars George). Whirr is being covered at meetups (e.g.
> >>> at the jclouds meetup in January). We have added a new service (HBase)
> >>> bringing the number of supported services to four: Hadoop, HBase,
> >>> Cassandra, ZooKeeper.
> >>>
> >>> Plans for the next period:
> >>> * Encourage community growth.
> >>> * Do a fourth release.
> >>> * Enhance the existing services, and add more services and cloud
> providers.
> >>>
> >>> Top three items to resolve before graduation:
> >>> * Increase community involvement in the project
> >>> * Make several incubating releases (Done)
> >>> * Support at least three services on Whirr (Done)
> >>>
> >>
>

Re: February board report

[Lars George <la...@gmail.com>]

I think has that already and then some. Given the background of the committers and their involvement in various other ASF projects I think Whirr to be very mature and well positioned. 


On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:28, Tom White <to...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>> +1 Looks great to me.
>> 
>> Question - at what point is whirr ready to graduate? Seems community
>> growth is our last remaining graduation issue, any insight into at
>> what point we're large enough?
> 
> I think it's more about diversity than size. This page on the
> incubator website has some useful information on this topic:
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tom White <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've added the following report to the wiki at
>>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2011. Please let me know if
>>> there are any changes that you'd like to see - have I missed anything?
>>> The report is due by 9 February.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud.
>>> 
>>> Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status
>>> information is available at
>>> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.
>>> 
>>> Progress since the last report (November 2010): We have made the third
>>> incubator release (0.3.0-incubating). We continue to get contributions
>>> from outside the initial committer base, and have added two committers
>>> (Andrei Savu and Lars George). Whirr is being covered at meetups (e.g.
>>> at the jclouds meetup in January). We have added a new service (HBase)
>>> bringing the number of supported services to four: Hadoop, HBase,
>>> Cassandra, ZooKeeper.
>>> 
>>> Plans for the next period:
>>> * Encourage community growth.
>>> * Do a fourth release.
>>> * Enhance the existing services, and add more services and cloud providers.
>>> 
>>> Top three items to resolve before graduation:
>>> * Increase community involvement in the project
>>> * Make several incubating releases (Done)
>>> * Support at least three services on Whirr (Done)
>>> 
>> 

Re: February board report

[Tom White <to...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> +1 Looks great to me.
>
> Question - at what point is whirr ready to graduate? Seems community
> growth is our last remaining graduation issue, any insight into at
> what point we're large enough?

I think it's more about diversity than size. This page on the
incubator website has some useful information on this topic:
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community.

Cheers,
Tom

>
> Patrick
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tom White <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've added the following report to the wiki at
>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2011. Please let me know if
>> there are any changes that you'd like to see - have I missed anything?
>> The report is due by 9 February.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud.
>>
>> Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status
>> information is available at
>> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.
>>
>> Progress since the last report (November 2010): We have made the third
>> incubator release (0.3.0-incubating). We continue to get contributions
>> from outside the initial committer base, and have added two committers
>> (Andrei Savu and Lars George). Whirr is being covered at meetups (e.g.
>> at the jclouds meetup in January). We have added a new service (HBase)
>> bringing the number of supported services to four: Hadoop, HBase,
>> Cassandra, ZooKeeper.
>>
>> Plans for the next period:
>> * Encourage community growth.
>> * Do a fourth release.
>> * Enhance the existing services, and add more services and cloud providers.
>>
>> Top three items to resolve before graduation:
>> * Increase community involvement in the project
>> * Make several incubating releases (Done)
>> * Support at least three services on Whirr (Done)
>>
>

Re: February board report

[Patrick Hunt <ph...@cloudera.com>]

+1 Looks great to me.

Question - at what point is whirr ready to graduate? Seems community
growth is our last remaining graduation issue, any insight into at
what point we're large enough?

Patrick

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tom White <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've added the following report to the wiki at
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2011. Please let me know if
> there are any changes that you'd like to see - have I missed anything?
> The report is due by 9 February.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> ----
>
> Whirr is a library for running services in the cloud.
>
> Whirr was accepted into the incubator on 11 May 2010. Status
> information is available at
> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.
>
> Progress since the last report (November 2010): We have made the third
> incubator release (0.3.0-incubating). We continue to get contributions
> from outside the initial committer base, and have added two committers
> (Andrei Savu and Lars George). Whirr is being covered at meetups (e.g.
> at the jclouds meetup in January). We have added a new service (HBase)
> bringing the number of supported services to four: Hadoop, HBase,
> Cassandra, ZooKeeper.
>
> Plans for the next period:
> * Encourage community growth.
> * Do a fourth release.
> * Enhance the existing services, and add more services and cloud providers.
>
> Top three items to resolve before graduation:
> * Increase community involvement in the project
> * Make several incubating releases (Done)
> * Support at least three services on Whirr (Done)
>