This is an email on private@orc mailing list yesterday. I'm sharing this again for the broader audience.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/trdwkspbwn6kbh29mn9skormo0yyl5bn ============================== Hi, All. There is no reason that a 3rd-party module contribution is different from a 3rd-party pull request. As a member of Apache ORC PMC, I want to help this contribution properly and responsibly in a systematic way. Here, let me illustrate a recent example of Apache Spark K8s Operator which happened in the Apache Spark community. 1. 2023-11-09 Discussion starts with asking a new repository https://lists.apache.org/thread/wdy7jfhf7m8jy74p6s0npjfd15ym5rxz [DISCUSSION] SPIP: An Official Kubernetes Operator for Apache Spark 2. 2023-11-13 One of Apache Spark PMC volunteered as a shepherd https://lists.apache.org/thread/1xl64k2bjtqj153168zd4trwlst7xkml 3. 2023-11-14 Umbrella JIRA issue was created for tracking SPARK-45923 Spark Kubernetes Operator 4. 2023-11-14 A module vote started https://lists.apache.org/thread/kvcf74n603nspg4j7whhst06zdmk66th [VOTE] SPIP: An Official Kubernetes Operator for Apache Spark 5. 2023-11-17 Vote passed with 19 +1s (11 binding +1s) https://lists.apache.org/thread/92v6mgyk9kvzcfygf52rdkht6tj2c17p [VOTE][RESULT] SPIP: An Official Kubernetes Operator for Apache Spark 6. 2024-03-29 Repository is created. https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator 7. 2024-04-02 The working PR was provided and reviewed. https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2 8. Apache Spark PMC decided to use it as a reference to review responsibly. https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2033278195 > A 19k diff patch is unfortunately not going to be easy to review, > or result in good quality reviews. Can you please split this up > into more manageable chunks to aid with it ? > We can keep this PR as reference to help drive the actual PR reviews 9. Apache Spark PMC helped the voluntary contributors' activities and shared the progress. - 2024-04-22 [1] - 2024-04-26 [2] - 2024-05-03 [3] - 2024-05-20 [4] - 2024-07-28 [5] - 2024-08-06 [6] 10. 2024-08-28 SPARK-45923 was resolved. 11. 2024-08-08 Updated Apache Spark website https://github.com/apache/spark-website/pull/542 Add a curated list for repositories governed by Apache Spark PMC 12. This was a huge activity for about 1 year for the community. As a result, the community organized the related domains into three seamlessly as parts of Apache Spark - SPARK-45923 Spark K8s Operator (New Repository: 132 tasks) - SPARK-45869 Revisit Spark Standalone Cluster (Supporting SPIP: 110 tasks) - SPARK-49524 Improve K8s support (Existing spark repository area: 70 tasks) During the journey, Apache Spark community achieved to - Extend the original proposed scope from SparkApp to SparkApp+SparkCluster - Integrate seamlessly in all area including website/docs - Build a community in organic way Sincerely, Dongjoon [1] https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2071471093 [2] https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2080135136 [3] https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2093722066 [4] https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2120918277 [5] https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2254902900 [6] https://github.com/apache/spark-kubernetes-operator/pull/2#issuecomment-2272129504
