Hi, The current core developers are all from LinkedIn. However, we hope to establish a developer community that includes contributors from several corporations and we actively encouraging new contributors via the mailing lists and public presentations of Samza.
Collective experience in the Incubator suggests that keeping discussions on-list will be an important challenge for the prospective Samza podling. It's much more efficient to just discuss things in person when everyone works in the same office -- especially difficult architectural issues requiring a high-level perspective on the complete project. However, given the history both the individual contributors and LinkedIn itself, at least the podling ought to start off with a strong understanding of the challenge. The core developers plan to work full time on the project. There is very little risk of Samza being abandoned as it is part of LinkedIn's internal infrastructure. This risk assessment seems a tad optimistic to me ;) since I only trust commercial entities to do what's in the interest of the bottom line and that can change very rapidly. (Witness IBM pulling all of its developers off of Harmony.) But I certainly don't see any problem that ought to block entry into the Incubator. * samza-private for private PMC discussions (with moderated subscriptions) * samza-dev * samza-commits * samza-user I'd suggest foregoing the user list for now. (See <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MailingListOptions>.) You want highly engaged users who are likely to become developers. It's best to keep everyone on the same list until dev traffic levels become burdensome to users; you don't have that problem yet. Nominated Mentors * Arun C Murthy <acmurthy at apache dot org> * Chris Douglas <cdouglas at apache dot org> * Roman Shaposhnik <rvs at apache dot org> The core developers may all work for LinkedIn, but that's a good, diverse list of Mentors in terms of affiliation. (Hortonworks, Microsoft, and Cloudera, repectively.) Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org