Sounds good to me as well. 
Can we simply import the code into the repository now?

Thanks,
Till

> On Apr 22, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is similar to Apache Flink where there was a project developed
> that depends on Flink.
> 
> It finally came to Flink as separate contributions and also bring new
> committers to the community that helps shows growth of the project.
> 
> If Pregelix could wait lets bring AsterixDB first and see where it
> could fit later once the git settle in the Apache Git repo.
> 
> - Henry
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think that there are a few ways to go about this
>> 1) just import it with everything else
>> 2) donate it later in an explicit step
>> 3) incubate it in separate project.
>> I think that
>> 1) is not ideal, as Pregelix wasn’t part of the incubation proposal that was 
>> voted on. However, I also don’t see any harm being caused by importing it 
>> now.
>> 2) would be a little cleaner as we could have a separate vote on this.
>> 3) would be possible as well, but since the Pregelix community is a 
>> subcommunity of the AsterixDB community and as the projects are technically 
>> very closely related it seems to make sense to have the same PMC managing 
>> them.
>> 
>> Other thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Till
>> 
>>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Michael Carey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Retrying minus the attachment (which is available anyway as the first 
>>> publication on the Pregelix site's publications page).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> Subject:      Re: Migration of git repository
>>> Date:         Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:49:59 -0700
>>> From:         Michael Carey <[email protected]>
>>> To:   Mattmann, Chris A (3980) <[email protected]>, Till 
>>> Westmann <[email protected]>
>>> CC:   Chris Hillery <[email protected]>, Ian Maxon <[email protected]>, 
>>> Yingyi Bu <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sure!  Let me clarify the issue for everyone (and broaden the question).
>>> 
>>> One of the technical by-products of the AsterixDB project is a graph 
>>> analytics package called Pregelix - as the name suggests, it is a "knock 
>>> off" of Pregel, as are packages like Giraph. What's unique about Pregelix 
>>> is that it actually scales without OOM'ing - under the covers it uses 
>>> database join processing techniques.  You can find out more about it by 
>>> visiting http://pregelix.ics.uci.edu/ and/or by skimming the attached paper 
>>> - check out the experimental results compared to other popular 
>>> alternatives. Anyway, we have made it freely available (as we do all of our 
>>> AsterixDB-related research products) and we were thinking that we should 
>>> simply include it under the AsterixDB project - kind of like Spark has 
>>> subprojects for SQL, streams, graphs, etc.  As a result, I listed it on the 
>>> list of transferred artifacts when I sent in the licensing form the other 
>>> day.  (So we at least have that step done.)  Its code conntributors have 
>>> been a small subset of the AsterixDB team; it was a small sub-project, 
>>> basically.  (Mostly just Yingyi Bu!)
>>> 
>>> Pregelix is kind of a sibling of Apache VXQuery in that its runtime is 
>>> based on Hyracks but it hasn't otherwise been AsterixDB-dependent.  
>>> However, we have just finished teaching it to read/write directly from 
>>> AsterixDB native storage - instead of just HDFS - so now it has an 
>>> AsterixDB dependency, and we are using it as a driving example of how to 
>>> couple AsterixDB to other analytic engines.
>>> 
>>> Rather than going through another exercise to open-source this separately, 
>>> it seemed like we could take this approach.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4/21/15 7:45 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote:
>>>> Yes, in fact, this whole conversations should be happening on
>>>> the dev list. OK for me to CC them on my reply?
>>>> 
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>>>> Chief Architect
>>>> Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
>>>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>>>> Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
>>>> Email:[email protected]
>>>> WWW:http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
>>>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: "Michael J. Carey"<[email protected]>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 3:13 AM
>>>> To: Till Westmann<[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: Chris Hillery<[email protected]>, Ian Maxon<[email protected]>, Yingyi
>>>> Bu<[email protected]>, Chris Mattmann<[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: Migration of git repository
>>>> 
>>>>> + Yingyi on the Pregelix Q.  Should we also ask Chris M for advice on
>>>>> that?
>>>>> On Apr 20, 2015 4:23 PM, "Till Westmann"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> That’s a good question - and I don’t know the answer.
>>>>> We’ve got 2 repos so far:
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9212
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9306
>>>>> so we should have space for Hyracks and AsterixDB.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think that there’s an open questions about Pregelix, but maybe that
>>>>> shouldn’t keep us from going ahead.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I further think that it would be great if you could send an e-mail to
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>  and ask if it’s ok to import
>>>>> our git repo(s) or if something else needs to be done first. (I could
>>>>> send that e-mail as well, but it would be great if there were more
>>>>> non-Till e0mails on the list :) )
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Till
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 20, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Ian Maxon<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Mike, Chris and Till,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Since (I think?) the paperwork for the software grant is done now, should
>>>>> I copy our GC branches over to the ASF git repositories now ( as well as
>>>>> making it a mirror in the Gerrit commit hook script)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> - Ian
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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