Hi Benson - Thanks for your feedback! It's too early to decide if there is an overlap between communities. Provisionr solves a different problem being focused on semi-automated workflows (e.g. with Rundeck) and cloud portability while Whirr is more focused on deploying services from the Hadoop stack.
I had this conversation before with Tom. -- Andrei Savu On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Tom White <tom.e.wh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Andrei Savu <savu.and...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Tom do you want to be a champion for this proposal? > > > > Yes, I'd be happy to. > > > > One thing I think is worth discussing more here is whether Provisionr > > should be a TLP on graduation, or whether it should be a module in > > Whirr. > > > Well, that puts this proposal into a gray area. In case you haven't > been reading all the traffic on this list, I'll give a quick summary > here. > > Historically, the Foundation had 'subprojects', and the the incubator > hosted podlings intended, eventually, to become subprojects of > existing TLPs. We don't do that anymore. If Provisionr becomes part > of Whir, it just becomes, well, part of Whir. > > That raises the question of what you need the incubator for if this is > your goal. There's a pretty simple alternative. The existing > Provisionr team works with Whir to do an IP grant of the code to the > Foundation. The existing team submits ICLAs. Whir makes a branch or > other distinctive tree in source control and grants the Provisionr > team commit access _to that tree_. Over time, the Provisionr people > earn full committer status by merit, and appropriate adjustments are > made to the tree structure. > > Given the state of the conversation about policy on this subject, I > think it would be reasonable to ask you all to talk to the Whir people > about this, and see if you an all come to an agreement for something > like this in parallel with a discussion here. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
