On Saturday, September 3, 2011, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm simply pointing out a lack of community involvement to date. > > > I would only add to this that the incubation proposal makes a controversial statement regarding existing involvement with the HBase community. It may be technically true if a certain company with involvement in HBase has also been interacting with "Accumulo", but is disingenuous to claim that the "community" has been involved here. > > It looks like strictly a one way street: They have been able to observe or borrow the fruits of our labor for years, and now at a suitable point wish to incubate at the ASF to compete with our project for community. That is not "community involvement". That is leeching.
are you saying that the proposal is actually some kind of HBase fork? And, isn't this 'competition' already happening between all the BT and Dynamo implementations? I fail to see anything bad happening here. Bernd
