Thanks for putting this together Sravya, this is a great start. I like how you treat quality and supportability as top level roadmap items. We should also consider revising the Sentry "vision statement". We can then ensure that roadmap items and new features align with the direction of the project. Currently, our wiki states:
"Apache Sentry is a system for enforcing fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster." IMO, Sentry has evolved to be more than just a system for *enforcing* authorization. It has become a standard for managing authorization policy metadata and a platform for integrating RBAC into Hadoop and 3rd party components. I don't want to convolute this thread by discuss both of these topics at the same time, but I think they are closely related. I can start a separate DISCUSS thread on the vision side of things. Thanks, Lenni On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Sravya Tirukkovalur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello fellow developers, > > It was discussed in some of our previous threads that it might be good to > list our roadmap in a wiki. How about lets start with a discussion on what > features we want to see in the future and possible project ideas. > > To kick start the discussion I started this barebones wiki > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Sentry+Roadmap+and+ideas > >page, > which basically lists the current roadmap items , which already have jiras > filed, bucketed into 3 categories: Core, Integration and Test. > - We can have all items related to sentry integration with other components > in the Integration bucket. > - All Quality/ Test/ Supportability related jiras bucketed in Test bucket. > - And everything else falls into "core" category. > > I propose using these buckets to make it easy to navigate our roadmap. But > eventually if we think just a single label is sufficient I am ok that way > too. Please checkout the wiki > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Sentry+Roadmap+and+ideas > >for > more details on jira labels. > > @Everyone: Please share your ideas for new features. Lets discuss and file > jiras to track it. If the idea is too abstract or needs more thinking, we > can just add them to the project ideas in the wiki until we get more > clarity. > > Please use [DISCUSS][ROADMAP] prefix for your email threads so that it > would be easy to track. > > Regards! >
