That is a very good point Lenni! Yes, Sentry has evolved to be much more than an enforcing engine. I agree that we should discuss and revisit our vision statement to reflect the much broader impact of Sentry.
Thanks! On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Lenni Kuff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > > -- Sravya Tirukkovalur
