Sorry about business lately and general unavailability

[Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org>]

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to apologize for the general lack of my availability
lately. I thought moving from Rancho Cucamonga, to Pasadena, CA
(over 50+ miles) wouldn't affect my productivity, and with that
and the holidays, and all the house work and moving stuff I've had
to do, coupled with $dayjob it's been tough.

I'm slowly catching up and coming out of the fog though so just
wanted to let you all know I'm going to be around and get back
to helping out as a mentor. Amazing thing though is that you guys
have really been kicking ass largely without me like you always do
and operating like a great ASF project.

I'd say you are headed for an early graduation and I will closely
monitor things like adding more PPMC members and committers (saw
you guys have been doing this), and also things like releases
(that too), and just keep doing what you're doing and you'll be
an ASF TLP shortly!

Cheers mates and rock on.

-Chris "Champion in abenstia but back now" Mattmann

Re: Sorry about business lately and general unavailability

[Roman Shaposhnik <rv...@apache.org>]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Reynold Xin <rx...@apache.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the update Chris.
>
> We do need to graduate soon.

I think important thing to realize is that there's no rush
and the project should graduate whenever the community
has demonstrated its capacity for functioning under the
principles of the Apache Way.

Graduation has absolutely nothing to do with how polished
the code is. Remember ASF's motto: "community over code".

> People have been asking me does "incubating"
> means the project is very immature. :(

I think this is one of the misconceptions that we all need to actively
take part in clearing: the projects in the incubator can be extremely
mature as far as the software goes. You don't have to search for
example too hard: OpenOffice and CloudStack readily come to mind.
Both were extremely well established and respected pieces of software
when they entered the incubator.

Once again -- the quality of your code is important, but WAY less important
than the quality of your community. There's plenty of excellent, beautifully
crafted software projects on GitHub.

Thanks,
Roman.

Re: Sorry about business lately and general unavailability

[Matei Zaharia <ma...@gmail.com>]

No worries Chris! Apart from the JIRA thing, we also plan another release or two soon.

Matei

On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Reynold Xin <rx...@apache.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the update Chris.
> 
> We do need to graduate soon. People have been asking me does "incubating"
> means the project is very immature. :(
> 
> One thing we need to do is to import the JIRA tickets from AMPLab's JIRA.
> That INFRA ticket hasn't moved much along. Can you help push that?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Guys,
>> 
>> Just wanted to apologize for the general lack of my availability
>> lately. I thought moving from Rancho Cucamonga, to Pasadena, CA
>> (over 50+ miles) wouldn't affect my productivity, and with that
>> and the holidays, and all the house work and moving stuff I've had
>> to do, coupled with $dayjob it's been tough.
>> 
>> I'm slowly catching up and coming out of the fog though so just
>> wanted to let you all know I'm going to be around and get back
>> to helping out as a mentor. Amazing thing though is that you guys
>> have really been kicking ass largely without me like you always do
>> and operating like a great ASF project.
>> 
>> I'd say you are headed for an early graduation and I will closely
>> monitor things like adding more PPMC members and committers (saw
>> you guys have been doing this), and also things like releases
>> (that too), and just keep doing what you're doing and you'll be
>> an ASF TLP shortly!
>> 
>> Cheers mates and rock on.
>> 
>> -Chris "Champion in abenstia but back now" Mattmann
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

Re: Sorry about business lately and general unavailability

[Reynold Xin <rx...@apache.org>]

Thanks for the update Chris.

We do need to graduate soon. People have been asking me does "incubating"
means the project is very immature. :(

One thing we need to do is to import the JIRA tickets from AMPLab's JIRA.
That INFRA ticket hasn't moved much along. Can you help push that?



On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> Just wanted to apologize for the general lack of my availability
> lately. I thought moving from Rancho Cucamonga, to Pasadena, CA
> (over 50+ miles) wouldn't affect my productivity, and with that
> and the holidays, and all the house work and moving stuff I've had
> to do, coupled with $dayjob it's been tough.
>
> I'm slowly catching up and coming out of the fog though so just
> wanted to let you all know I'm going to be around and get back
> to helping out as a mentor. Amazing thing though is that you guys
> have really been kicking ass largely without me like you always do
> and operating like a great ASF project.
>
> I'd say you are headed for an early graduation and I will closely
> monitor things like adding more PPMC members and committers (saw
> you guys have been doing this), and also things like releases
> (that too), and just keep doing what you're doing and you'll be
> an ASF TLP shortly!
>
> Cheers mates and rock on.
>
> -Chris "Champion in abenstia but back now" Mattmann
>
>
>
>
>
>