Hi Eli, On Aug 16, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Eli Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) > <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> The existing discussion and conversation below is the precise reason that I >> suggested >> Hadoop consider spinning out the rest of its *products* as *projects*. Folks >> have piped >> up and listed technical reasons as the challenges behind this, and then >> responded >> with clear community reasons either by their actions, or by other means. >> >> Having distinct communities as indicated by distinct lists of committers >> isn't wrong -- it's >> usually however exemplified by having a distinct Apache project. It sounds >> like those >> folks that have been working on YARN for 1.5 years+ as stated would like to >> have their >> own distinct Apache community. > > Not sure that's the case, eg I think we all want to keep yarn in the > same code repository, allow patches that update it along with other > hadoop subprojects, co-design it with MR, test/release it together as > well. That's not a sign of a distinct community. Keeping code in the same repository with a PMC with different sets of permissions in that repository *is* the sign of a distinct community. Doesn't matter if you want the code there together, and allowing patches, and testing and releasing and whatever. Those are technical issues. Having code with *different* rules for *the same* community members is not what I know as "community over code" and the Apache way. And ultimately it's the reason why this email thread won't die. There's an elephant in the room here (pun intended). Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
