My worry with a contrib module is that, historically, code which goes
moves to a contrib is just one step away from the grave. I think there's
precedence for keeping them in core (as Christopher had mentioned, next
to examples/simple) which would benefit people externally (more "how do
I do X" examples) and internally (keep devs honest about how our APIs
are implemented).
Bringing the examples into the core also encourages us to grow the
community which has been stagnant with respect to new committers for
about 9 months now.
Corey Nolet wrote:
+1 for adding the examples to contrib.
I was, myself, reading over this email wondering how a set of 11 separate
examples on the use of Accumulo would fit into the core codebase-
especially as more are contributed over tinme. I like the idea of giving
community members an outlet for contributing examples that they've built so
that we can continue to foster that without having to fit them in the core
codebase. It just seems more maintainable.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Josh Elser<[email protected]> wrote:
I'll take that as you disagree with my consideration of "substantial".
Thanks.
Mike Drob wrote:
The proposed contribution is a collection of 11 examples. It's clearly
non-trivial, which is probably enough to be considered "substantial"
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Josh Elser<[email protected]>
wrote:
Sean Busbey wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Josh Elser<[email protected]>
wrote:
Personally, I didn't really think that this contribution was in the
spirit
of what the new codebase adoption guidelines were meant to cover.
Some extra examples which leverage what Accumulo already does seems
more
like improvements for new Accumulo users than anything else.
It's content developed out side of the project list. That's all it
takes to
require the trip through the Incubator checks as far as the ASF
guidelines
are concerned.
From http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
"""
From time to time, an external codebase is brought into the ASF that is
not a separate incubating project but still represents a substantial
contribution that was not developed within the ASF's source control
system
and on our public mailing lists.
"""
Not to look a gift-horse in the mouth (it is great work), but I don't see
these examples as "substantial". I haven't found guidelines yet that
better
clarify the definition of "substantial".
