As a mentor, I agree that vendor specific packages aren't appropriate for the Apache site. (Disclosure: I work at Hortonworks.) Working with the vendors to make packages available is great, but they shouldn't be hosted at Apache.
.. Owen On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope not surprisingly, I agree. (Backstory: I am at Cloudera.) I > have for example lobbied Spark to remove CDH-specific releases and > build profiles. Not just for this reason, but because it is often > unnecessary to have vendor-specific builds, and also just increases > maintenance overhead for the project. > > Matei et al say they want to make it as easy as possible to consume > Spark, and so provide vendor-build-specific artifacts and such here > and there. To be fair, Spark tries to support a large range of Hadoop > and YARN versions, and getting the right combination of profiles and > versions right to recreate a vendor release was kind of hard until > about Hadoop 2.2 (stable YARN really). > > I haven't heard of any formal policy. I would ask whether there are > similar reasons to produce pre-packaged releases like so? > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me begin by noting that I obviously have a conflict of interest > since my > > company is a direct competitor to Cloudera. But as a mentor and Apache > > member I believe I need to bring this up. > > > > What is the Apache policy towards having a vendor specific package on a > > download site? It is strange to me to come to Flink's website and see > > packages for Flink with CDH (or HDP or MapR or whatever). We should > avoid > > providing vendor specific packages. It gives the appearance of > preferring > > one vendor over another, which Apache does not want to do. > > > > I have no problem at all with Cloudera hosting a CDH specific package of > > Flink, nor with Flink project members working with Cloudera to create > such a > > package. But I do not think they should be hosted at Apache. > > > > Alan. > > -- > > Sent with Postbox <http://www.getpostbox.com> > > > > -- > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity > to > > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the > reader of > > this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any > > printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding > of > > this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > > communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete > it > > from your system. Thank You. >
