HubSpot is still also using mesos and I know we have at least 3 other companies still using the open source version of our Singularity scheduler. We are up to the 1.11.x release at this point. However, I don't know that any of that crowd has been or will be active contributors.
-Stephen Salinas On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 5:03 AM Qian Zhang <zhq527...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Qian, it might be worth having a more explicit email asking users to > chime > > in as this email was tailored more for contributors. > > > Yes, we can have such email, but I think it does not affect whether we > should move Mesos to attic or not, since the most important factor is > whether we have enough active committers. Quoted from > https://attic.apache.org/ > <https://attic.apache.org> > > When should a project move to the Attic? > > Projects whose PMC are unable to muster 3 votes for a release, who have no > active committers or are unable to fulfill their reporting duties to the > board are all good candidates for the Attic. > > I am happy to see there are still some companies using Mesos now, but in > this mail thread, so far there are just several contributors interested in > contributing to Mesos and only one committer Benjamin Mahler (no guaranteed > time), I think that's not enough to keep this project going, so we may have > to move Mesos to attic. > > > Regards, > Qian Zhang > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM Benjamin Mahler <bmah...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Also if you are still a user of mesos, please chime in. > > Qian, it might be worth having a more explicit email asking users to > chime > > in as this email was tailored more for contributors. > > > > Twitter is still using mesos heavily, we upgraded from a branch based off > > of 1.2.x to 1.9.x in 2021, but haven't upgraded to 1.11.x yet. We do > have a > > lot of patches carried on our branch that have not been upstreamed. I > would > > like to upstream them to avoid relying on many custom patches and to > > get closer to HEAD, but it will take time and quite a bit of work, and > it's > > not a priority at the moment. > > > > On the contribution side, at this point if I were to continue > contributing, > > it would be on a volunteer basis, and I can't guarantee having enough > time > > to do so. > > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:57 PM Qian Zhang <zhq527...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'd like to restart the discussion around the future of the Mesos > > project. > > > As you may already be aware, the Mesos community has been inactive for > > the > > > last few years, there were only 3 contributors last year, that's > > obviously > > > not enough to keep the project moving forward. I think we need at > least 3 > > > active committers/PMC members and some active contributors to keep the > > > project alive, or we may have to move it to attic > > > <https://attic.apache.org/ > <https://attic.apache.org/> > >. > > > > > > Call for action: If you are the current committer/PMC member and still > > > have the capacity to maintain the project, or if you are willing to > > > actively contribute to the project as a contributor, please reply to > this > > > email, thanks! > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Qian Zhang > > > > > >
