On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know the name might be confusing, but I also think that the projects have > a very big synergy, more like sibling projects, where "Spark Extras" extends > the Spark community and develop/maintain components for, and pretty much > only for, Apache Spark. Based on your comment above, if making the project > "Spark-Extras" a more acceptable name, I believe this is ok as well.
This also grants special status to a third-party project. It's not clear this should be *the* official unofficial third-party Spark project over some other one. If something's to be blessed, it should be in the Spark project. And why isn't it in the Spark project? the argument was that these bits were not used and pretty de minimis as code. It's not up to me or anyone else to tell you code X isn't useful to you. But arguing X should be a TLP asserts it is substantial and of broad interest, since there's non-zero effort for volunteers to deal with it. I am not sure I've heard anyone argue that -- or did I miss it? because removing bits of unused code happens all the time and isn't a bad precedent or even unusual. It doesn't actually enable any more cooperation than is already possible with any other project (like Kafka, Mesos, etc). You can run the same governance model anywhere you like. I realize literally being operated under the ASF banner is something different. What I hear here is a proposal to make an unofficial official Spark project as a TLP, that begins with these fairly inconsequential extras. I question the value of that on its face. Example: what goes into this project? deleted Spark code only? or is this a glorified "contrib" folder with a lower and somehow different bar determined by different people? And at that stage... is it really helping to give that special status? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
