Ok, folks. Here's an official draft. Let me know what you think, and
I'll post later today/tmrw.
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Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Getting more external users
2. Getting more diverse set of developers
3. Getting more diverse set of committers/PMC
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to see regular interaction with users who are trying out
Apache Slider (incubating). Questions range from introductory "I'm
trying to do $x" to bug reports "I did $a and encountered an issue $b".
The committers try their best to keep people involved and steer them
toward contributions. The strong majority of contributions continue to
come from existing podling members.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The IP clearance for the Apache Kafka Slider "app-package" process
was addressed (after discussion on [email protected]) and this codebase was
merged in. This was a great contribution by a few external developers
and very much appreciated.
Work continues on "phase 2" of some long-term work to include support
for running Docker containers in Slider. The intent behind this work is
that we will make it easier for (prospective) users to build
applications that can run on Slider. There is a tentative patch on
SLIDER-906 and some related documentation updates.
We have agreed upon a next release (0.91) happening in May, but have
not made any significant progress towards that release yet.
We had a discussion put forth about the future of Slider by a podling
member. At the inception of Slider, Apache Hadoop's YARN was not ready
to support long-lived services "natively". While Slider has been in
incubation, YARN has continued to grow towards treating these services
natively, partly as a result of requirements necessary of Slider to
work. As such, we discussed whether it would make sense to ask the YARN
project if they would be interesting in combining efforts, moving the
core of Slider into YARN itself. The Slider community reacted
positively, noting that YARN is likely a better long-term home for the
core of Slider; however, there were a few points raised that would need
to be addressed before any action was actually taken. We are still
waiting to hear back from the YARN community as to whether or not they
would be interested in such an "adoption". The mail discussion can be
found at https://s.apache.org/3ywX
Date of last release:
2016-01-09 slider-0.90.2-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu
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- Josh
