Just for conversation, if somebody approached ASF incubator with an idea for a framework called "ExtendedSleep" that claimed to be a Java relational-object mapping framework (instead of the crusty object-relational approach that the Hibernate mapping framework provides), would anybody take it seriously?
Bernd, to your point the best defense is a good offense (I.e., write code that rocks), and I agree. On 9/2/11 4:01 PM, "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
