Maybe a BOF at Hadoop World could clarify some things, provided some of those folks attend the conference.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:01, Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, September 2, 2011, Gary Helmling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Claims a relationship with HBase. Is there overlapping code or is this > just >> the duplication of functionality? There's no community relationship that >> I'm aware of. I haven't seen any of the proposed committers on the HBase >> user and dev lists to this point, so that doesn't set much of a precedent >> for community interaction. >> >> >> Overall I see no meaningful differentiation vs HBase as an existing > project, >> no past attempts to interact with the most relevant Apache community, and >> only an, until now, private "community" of government users. I think it's >> great that they want to open source this. I don't want to discourage that >> -- go for it! But I don't see what the benefit is of ASF incubating this. >> I only see the potential for community fragmentation and market confusion >> over such closely similar projects. > > Over the years, many "competing" projects went through incubation or were > developped in different projects. There are at least 5 HTTP servers, two > WS-* stacks, three build tools, there is Cassandra, HBase and CouchDB. No > project can claim to dominate a particular technical domain. Maybe a bit > surprising, this evolution of projects has fostered innovation and > contributed to ASFs versatlity. > > The only thing you can really do is write code that rocks, build an open > community and put out great releases. > > Bernd >
