Community oriented action items from our virtual meetup on Nov 13

[Mike Percy <mp...@apache.org>]

Hi Kudu developer community,
We had an interesting discussion on Slack this last Tuesday about growing
the community and I wanted to share some of the takeaways with the list.
For anyone interested in the full-fidelity details of the discussion, it is
temporarily archived (subject to the free Slack instance history limit of
10K messages) on the Kudu Slack instance in the #community-discuss channel,
available for perusal at your leisure.

Following are the high-level takeaways from our meeting:

Recent updates on previously-discussed action items:

1. KUDU-2402: Gerrit / GitHub integration sign-in bug - fixed
2. KUDU-2411: Java/Maven test KuduMiniCluster with binary artifacts (for
testing use only by external projects)
   - Grant Henke made significant progress refactoring the Java MiniCluster
to enable this from the Java side as well as related Java build work with
the migration from Maven to Gradle
   - Mike Percy posted a WIP patch for the relocatable binary artifact
build work @ https://gerrit.cloudera.org/c/11377/ and worked on a POC for
the location / unpacking portion of the integration posted @
https://github.com/mpercy/resource-jar-tools -- we will try to finish this
integration in the next cycle (details below)

Current action items based on the Slack discussion on Tuesday:

1. KUDU-2402: Java/Maven test KuduMiniCluster with binary artifacts -- Mike
Percy and Brian McDevitt volunteered to work together to design / write /
integrate the remaining pieces of this.
2. Docker container to ease demos and also help bootstrap developers --
Grant Henke and Attila Bukor volunteered to investigate this.
3. Write and solicit the writing of use-case oriented blog posts -- Attila
Bukor volunteered to write a blog post with a "call for blog posts" from
people working with Kudu today
4. Update the docs to explain how to contribute a blog post on the Kudu
blog -- Attila Bukor volunteered to do this
5. Regarding conference talks: Encourage developers and users to submit
more use case oriented talks, especially where the talk is recorded and the
slides are posted, since those types of talks age well -- no particular
person is assigned to this

Folks seemed to think this was a productive discussion and felt it would be
a good idea to follow this up with another sync up in a month. Looking at
the calendar, that would appear to be just before Christmas. In my
experience a lot of people are busy or out of the office in the 1-2 weeks
leading up to Christmas and New Year's Eve, so I'm inclined to suggest we
wait until early January 2019 to do another real-time virtual meetup on
these topics. In the meantime, let's use Slack and the dev list to
coordinate on these action items.

Please let me know if I missed anything.

Thanks,
Mike