Hive is open source so there are millions of ways to help even without being under the sponsorship flag.
Quick examples: "Hey, I have set up this machine there and I can give you access to run benchmarks" "In my company X we are using Hive and we decided to run nightly benchmarks on our inhouse clusters; the results are publicly available and you can access them here." In a nutshell we are open to any kind of help that someone is willing to offer. The official website of Hive [1] has all the necessary links about donations, sponsorships, etc., under the ASF dropdown menu. Best, Stamatis [1] https://hive.apache.org/ On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:38 AM Eugene Ryan <ryan.eug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for that, Stamatis. Plenty of food for thought there. What would you > think of the best way of getting sponsors on board - when they > read/contribute here, for example? > > From the list of requirements to start a VM, the following could be used as > part of the process, I imagine: > Maintainers: > "Provide the name, Apache ID, and contact info for at least three PMC > members who will maintain the vm " - read “maintain cluster” here or perhaps > this would be the sponsor > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey Eugene, >> >> Having a cluster for performance testing is a great idea and it is >> something that has popped up in various contexts. >> >> The most common way to obtain such clusters is via sponsors (companies >> or individuals) donating resources to the project. For example, the >> Hive CI is now running mostly on resources donated by Cloudera. >> >> There seems to be a process about requesting resources from the Apache >> Infra team [1] but I am not aware of other ASF projects following this >> path for performance testing. Most likely the easiest and fastest way >> to move this forward is through a sponsor. Depending on where the >> resources come from will also determine the design, implementation, >> and maintenance. >> >> Best, >> Stamatis >> >> [1] https://infra.apache.org/vm-for-project.html >> >> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:25 AM Eugene Ryan <ryan.eug...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'd like to get folks' opinions on having a public cluster for performance >> > testing Hive code and getting an early read on whether a commit / build has >> > caused a performance degradation over existing code. >> > >> > There are already well known workloads available, for example, TPC-DS >> > (https://github.com/hortonworks/hive-testbench) that can be run so I'm not >> > talking about performance test code itself (although that should be as >> > easy as possible on top of a dedicated cluster). >> > >> > The benefits to the community would be: >> > - A dedicated environment, not necessarily leaving it to the vendors to >> > integrate open-source later into their stacks and only find out some time >> > later about performance problems >> > - Something that can be left set up & running - no setup and tear-down >> > process needed every time a performance run is required >> > - An automated process for performance testing - no manual setup or >> > intervention >> > >> > Concerns: >> > - Budget >> > - Who administers the cluster, ie.. who sets it up, fixes it when down >> > >> > I'd like to get some opinions on what the process for getting this to >> > happen would be, bearing in mind that certain things may well be obstacles >> > (budget) that have to be solved upfront before anything else happens: >> > - Budget approval >> > - Approval / Sign off - how & who? >> > - Architecture / pipeline design >> > - Implementation >> > >> > Thanks, all opinions welcome. >> > Eugene >> > > > > > -- > Eugene
