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Posted to dev@plc4x.apache.org by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de> on 2018/10/01 16:24:12 UTC
[DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Hi all,
As it’s a draft, I guess it’s ok to talk about a finished release ;-)
Comments greatly appreciated … really happy that this time we really had quite a bit to report … thanks for making that happen :-)
Chris
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Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Make our first release
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (Pragmatic Minds)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
of the team to also be able to do releases.
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
Hi Justin,
I just checked i fit was true so I added:
"Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes. All of our mentors have been responsive and have helped."
To the report.
Chris
Am 03.10.18, 23:03 schrieb "Justin Mclean" <jm...@apache.org>:
Hi,
Sorry I missed this, although I guess Is know the answer.
You neglected to answer this question in the report:
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.
Can you please do so.
Thanks,
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Justin Mclean <jm...@apache.org>.
Hi,
Sorry I missed this, although I guess Is know the answer.
You neglected to answer this question in the report:
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues that need to be addressed.
Can you please do so.
Thanks,
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
So I think we'll go with that version ...
So let's see where I have to put it __
Chris
Am 02.10.18, 14:41 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Fine for me.
Am 02.10.18, 10:30 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
So how about this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (pragmatic industries)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 09:18 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi Chris,
Just a small (but important) note on the company I'm working for, its "pragmatic industries" (all lower case).
We also have the pragmatic minds company, but the CCLA is for the industries, as I do this in the time I'm working for the pragmatic industries.
Julian
Am 02.10.18, 08:36 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
Hi Justin,
thanks for that input .. you are absolutely right ... so here goes an updated version ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (Pragmatic Minds)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 07:07 schrieb "Justin Mclean" <ju...@classsoftware.com>:
Hi,
All good by me, a couple of (very) minor things below.
> Make our first release
You done this so no need to list it?
> While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
> Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
> Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
It likely you be asked if any of these are committer worthy.
> However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
> After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
> of the team to also be able to do releases.
“members” is such an overloaded term at the ASF it might be better to use something else? "other people on the PPMC" perhaps?
Thanks,.
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Julian Feinauer <j....@pragmaticminds.de>.
Fine for me.
Am 02.10.18, 10:30 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
So how about this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (pragmatic industries)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 09:18 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi Chris,
Just a small (but important) note on the company I'm working for, its "pragmatic industries" (all lower case).
We also have the pragmatic minds company, but the CCLA is for the industries, as I do this in the time I'm working for the pragmatic industries.
Julian
Am 02.10.18, 08:36 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
Hi Justin,
thanks for that input .. you are absolutely right ... so here goes an updated version ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (Pragmatic Minds)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 07:07 schrieb "Justin Mclean" <ju...@classsoftware.com>:
Hi,
All good by me, a couple of (very) minor things below.
> Make our first release
You done this so no need to list it?
> While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
> Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
> Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
It likely you be asked if any of these are committer worthy.
> However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
> After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
> of the team to also be able to do releases.
“members” is such an overloaded term at the ASF it might be better to use something else? "other people on the PPMC" perhaps?
Thanks,.
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
So how about this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (pragmatic industries)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 09:18 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi Chris,
Just a small (but important) note on the company I'm working for, its "pragmatic industries" (all lower case).
We also have the pragmatic minds company, but the CCLA is for the industries, as I do this in the time I'm working for the pragmatic industries.
Julian
Am 02.10.18, 08:36 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
Hi Justin,
thanks for that input .. you are absolutely right ... so here goes an updated version ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (Pragmatic Minds)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 07:07 schrieb "Justin Mclean" <ju...@classsoftware.com>:
Hi,
All good by me, a couple of (very) minor things below.
> Make our first release
You done this so no need to list it?
> While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
> Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
> Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
It likely you be asked if any of these are committer worthy.
> However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
> After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
> of the team to also be able to do releases.
“members” is such an overloaded term at the ASF it might be better to use something else? "other people on the PPMC" perhaps?
Thanks,.
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Julian Feinauer <j....@pragmaticminds.de>.
Hi Chris,
Just a small (but important) note on the company I'm working for, its "pragmatic industries" (all lower case).
We also have the pragmatic minds company, but the CCLA is for the industries, as I do this in the time I'm working for the pragmatic industries.
Julian
Am 02.10.18, 08:36 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
Hi Justin,
thanks for that input .. you are absolutely right ... so here goes an updated version ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (Pragmatic Minds)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 02.10.18, 07:07 schrieb "Justin Mclean" <ju...@classsoftware.com>:
Hi,
All good by me, a couple of (very) minor things below.
> Make our first release
You done this so no need to list it?
> While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
> Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
> Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
It likely you be asked if any of these are committer worthy.
> However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
> After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
> of the team to also be able to do releases.
“members” is such an overloaded term at the ASF it might be better to use something else? "other people on the PPMC" perhaps?
Thanks,.
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
Hi Justin,
thanks for that input .. you are absolutely right ... so here goes an updated version ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache PLC4X (incubating)
PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API.
Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation:
Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community.
Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding.
Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
Not at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
Two of them got added to the Committers and PPMC groups.
The others were one-shot contributions without any further communications.
In September Christofer Dutz had two talks on PLC4X at two conferences:
* Solutions Hamburg 2018
* ApacheCon NA 2018
An article on PLC4X by Christofer Dutz was published in the German Tech Magazine: iX
(Link to the article: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
Also, just before ApacheCon we also had our first PLC4X Meetup where several current contributors as well as
very interested new people were present.
Also did we successfully vote in our first two new committers and PPMC members.
* Julian Feinauer (Pragmatic Minds)
* Andrey Skorikov (codecentric)
Finally just before finishing this report we also finished our first release: Version 0.1.0
Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 9 to currently 38 subscribers.
Our Twitter followers increased by 18 to 59 followers.
On GitHub we now have 24 “Stars” and 14 “Forks”
Business interest has increased dramatically as more and more companies are signaling their willingness to
try out PLC4X and some are currently even in the transition phase of porting their products to PLC4X.
How does the podling rate their own maturity?
We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved.
So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way.
However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other people
on the team to also be able to do releases.
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Am 02.10.18, 07:07 schrieb "Justin Mclean" <ju...@classsoftware.com>:
Hi,
All good by me, a couple of (very) minor things below.
> Make our first release
You done this so no need to list it?
> While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
> Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
> Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
It likely you be asked if any of these are committer worthy.
> However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
> After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
> of the team to also be able to do releases.
“members” is such an overloaded term at the ASF it might be better to use something else? "other people on the PPMC" perhaps?
Thanks,.
Justin
Re: [DRAFT] Oktober Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating)
Posted by Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>.
Hi,
All good by me, a couple of (very) minor things below.
> Make our first release
You done this so no need to list it?
> While the community activity had been quite low since the beginning of the project, things changed in August.
> Then we noticed not only new names appearing on the list, but the number of emails on the list grew by 400%-500%.
> Also did we get several pull requests from about 5 new names, contributing to multiple areas.
It likely you be asked if any of these are committer worthy.
> However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team.
> After our first official release, we will now fine-tune this release process and try to educate other members
> of the team to also be able to do releases.
“members” is such an overloaded term at the ASF it might be better to use something else? "other people on the PPMC" perhaps?
Thanks,.
Justin