Hi Richard, The contributor route makes more sense to me than ripping out our cluster layer for another engine.
For what it's worth, anyone coming from StormCrawler isn't starting from zero on Storm. We work on top of its model every day. The internals are the part we don't know, but that's still a smaller jump than picking up a new framework from scratch. It's a direction I'd be interested in, even if not something I can jump on immediately. Best, Davide Il giorno lun 18 mag 2026 alle ore 16:55 Dávid Szigecsán <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Hi, > > To be honest, it was kind of a coincidence, I showed up there. I started to > look a bit deeper into Storm in the last few days, but I still don't know > much about it. I started to check the project (clone the repository and > tried to build) with some errors, because I use windows and Storm is not so > windows friendly. :D > Anyway, I did not think I could make a huge impact in it (especially as I > am unfortunately not the most active member of the community :( ). > But I don't want to let Storm die. If I can help, I want to. In the last > few days I read lots about Storm's history and it deserves to live. > I am going on a long vacation from 24. May to 8. June, but after that I am > happy to discuss how I can help. > > Regards, > Sigee > > Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. máj. 18., H, > 16:35): > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I wanted to raise something that's been on my mind for a while regarding > > the sustainability of Apache Storm itself. From what I've observed, > getting > > the 3 votes required for releases and decisions has become quite > cumbersome > > - sometimes really hard - and that makes me worry about how viable Storm > is > > as a foundation for us going forward. > > > > On a more positive note, I noticed that Dávid recently showed up in one > of > > the Storm issues. I think it would be a good idea to try to get a few > more > > people from the StormCrawler side involved in Storm directly. One thing > > that helps here: Storm doesn't differentiate between Committer and PMC - > > they vote new people straight into the PMC. So it could be a relatively > > clean way to inject some fresh contributors and voting power into the > > project. > > > > If we don't manage to do something along those lines, I'm afraid we'll > > have to seriously consider re-inventing or migrating our underlying > cluster > > technology to another stream processing framework sooner rather than > later, > > and let Storm die (in the attic). > > I'd rather avoid that if we can since the technology has a proven record > > in web crawling projects. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Gruß > > Richard >
