Anyone have a read on how the protobuf folks would feel about that? Apache has a history of not accepting projects that are non-amicable forks.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> wrote: > > On Jun 12, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Alan Burlison <alan.burli...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > > On 14/05/2015 18:41, Chris Nauroth wrote: > > > >> As a reminder though, the community probably would want to see a strong > >> justification for the upgrade in terms of features or performance or > >> something else. Right now, I'm not seeing a significant benefit for us > >> based on my reading of their release notes. I think it's worthwhile to > >> figure this out first. Otherwise, there is a risk that any testing work > >> turns out to be a wasted effort. > > > > One reason at least: PB 2.5.0 has no support for Solaris SPARC. 2.6.1 > does. > > > That's a pretty good reason. > > Some of us had a discussion at Summit about effectively forking > protobuf and making it an Apache TLP. This would give us a chance to get > out from under Google's blind spot, guarantee better compatibility across > the ecosystem, etc, etc. > > It is sounding more and more like that's really what needs to > happen. -- Sean
