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Issue backlog building on incubator-openwhisk is still a major issue (partly due to #2 above). As of this report, the "open" issue backlog on the "main" platform repo is 397 (up from 384 as of last report). The open PR count on the main repo has held steady at around 30 (down from 50+ 6 months ago), but still 1/3 of the ready-to-merge PRs are more than 1 month old. The PR and Issue backlog on other project repositories is generally much lower and of less concern than the Issue backlog on the main repo.
Need to prioritize and work to reduce while advancing major proposals around restructuring around abstractions to accommodate running on Knative while enhancing support for better logging/scheduling and performance testing enhancements.
Trying to add more active Committers to augment those who have dropped off in their activity; however, we have reached an impasse where potential new Contributor pull requests are not getting timely reviews/merges. We have potential new Contribs. to front-end Runtimes we will look to nominate ASAP, but we still lack back-end Contribs.
It seems that Apache Infra. will not provide us servers to host a staging environment that would help us perform needed staging testing on Pull Requests. This means that independent testing needs to be done by members (companies). We have explored a corporate donation as suggested (ala Spark and SystemML), but this does not seem possible at this time.
If indeed we now have the infra VMs (donation?), then we need Community to “step up” to help us setup and automate- The project is still working on establishing an open staging environment to enable proper testing without depending on closed testing infrastructure at involved companies. Unfortunately, even after finally arranging a corporate donation to the ASF in June to support this need, it took until late October for Apache Infra to finish provisioning the machines.
Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be executed; need to identify process for this. See #3 above.
Discussion started w/ Apache legal via "legal-discuss" mailing list with subject "Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo".
IBM intends to hand-off ownership of trademarks at time of graduation.
Announcements from Google (Knative) in late July and AWS (Firecracker) just last week apply pressure on our community in order to both explain to developers/operators how OW is differentiated from, as well as compatible with, both popular providers’ frameworks.
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