My understanding is that the ASF is about community, not code. So what is the goal for Accumulo? Build a community. How much would it intersect with the HBase community? Sounds like a lot. Does it still make sense to incubate it then?
To the point earlier that ASF has hosted multiple competitors of various core projects, notably httpd, I had a look, there is exactly 2 projects that serve HTTP exclusively: Apache HTTPD Apache Traffic Server But these 2 are complementary, although some features kind of overlap (mod_proxy for eg), they dont really compete directly. So, would the ASF allow incubation of a web server product, for example nginx (which is a direct httpd competitor)? If the answer is "no either work with the httpd community or go elsewhere", then sure Accumulo should have the same treatment? -ryan On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
