+1. If you need another mentor, sign me up.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Nathan Marz <nat...@nathanmarz.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to propose Storm to be an Apache Incubator project. After much > thought I believe this is the right next step for the project, and I look > forward to hearing everyone's thoughts and feedback! > > Here's a link to the proposal: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StormProposal > > The proposal is also pasted below. > > -Nathan > > > = Storm Proposal = > > == Abstract == > > Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime > computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of > data. > > == Proposal == > > Storm is a distributed real-time computation system. Similar to how Hadoop > provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm > provides a set of general primitives for doing real-time computation. Its > use cases span stream processing, distributed RPC, continuous computation, > and more. Storm has become a preferred technology for near-realtime > big-data processing by many organizations worldwide (see a partial list at > https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By). As an open source > project, Storm’s developer community has grown rapidly to 46 members. > > == Background == > > The past decade has seen a revolution in data processing. MapReduce, > Hadoop, and related technologies have made it possible to store and process > data at scales previously unthinkable. Unfortunately, these data processing > technologies are not realtime systems, nor are they meant to be. The lack > of a "Hadoop of realtime" has become the biggest hole in the data > processing ecosystem. Storm fills that hole. > > Storm was initially developed and deployed at BackType in 2011. After 7 > months of development BackType was acquired by Twitter in July 2011. Storm > was open sourced in September 2011. > > Storm has been under continuous development on its Github repository since > being open-sourced. It has undergone four major releases (0.5, 0.6, 0.7, > 0.8) and many minor ones. > > == Rationale == > > Storm is a general platform for low-latency big-data processing. It is > complementary to the existing Apache projects, such as Hadoop. Many > applications are actually exploring using both Hadoop and Storm for > big-data processing. Bringing Storm into Apache is very beneficial to both > Apache community and Storm community. > > The rapid growth of Storm community is empowered by open source. We believe > the Apache foundation is a great fit as the long-term home for Storm, as it > provides an established process for community-driven development and > decision making by consensus. This is exactly the model we want for future > Storm development. > > == Initial Goals == > > * Move the existing codebase to Apache > * Integrate with the Apache development process > * Ensure all dependencies are compliant with Apache License version 2.0 > * Incremental development and releases per Apache guidelines > > == Current Status == > > Storm has undergone four major releases (0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8) and many minor > ones. Storm 0.9 is about to be released. Storm is being used in production > by over 50 organizations. Storm codebase is currently hosted at github.com > , > which will seed the Apache git repository. > > === Meritocracy === > > We plan to invest in supporting a meritocracy. We will discuss the > requirements in an open forum. Several companies have already expressed > interest in this project, and we intend to invite additional developers to > participate. We will encourage and monitor community participation so that > privileges can be extended to those that contribute. > > === Community === > > The need for a low-latency big-data processing platform in the open source > is tremendous. Storm is currently being used by at least 50 organizations > worldwide (see https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By), and > is > the most starred Java project on Github. By bringing Storm into Apache, we > believe that the community will grow even bigger. > > === Core Developers === > > Storm was started by Nathan Marz at BackType, and now has developers from > Yahoo!, Microsoft, Alibaba, Infochimps, and many other companies. > > === Alignment === > > In the big-data processing ecosystem, Storm is a very popular low-latency > platform, while Hadoop is the primary platform for batch processing. We > believe that it will help the further growth of big-data community by > having Hadoop and Storm aligned within Apache foundation. The alignment is > also beneficial to other Apache communities (such as Zookeeper, Thrift, > Mesos). We could include additional sub-projects, Storm-on-YARN and > Storm-on-Mesos, in the near future. > > == Known Risks == > > === Orphaned Products === > > The risk of the Storm project being abandoned is minimal. There are at > least 50 organizations (Twitter, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Groupon, Baidu, > Alibaba, Alipay, Taobao, PARC, RocketFuel etc) are highly incentivized to > continue development. Many of these organizations have built critical > business applications upon Storm, and have devoted significant internal > infrastructure investment in Storm. > > === Inexperience with Open Source === > > Storm has existed as a healthy open source project for several years. > During that time, we have curated an open-source community successfully, > attracting over 40 developers from a diverse group of companies including > Twitter, Yahoo!, and Alibaba. > > === Homogenous Developers === > > The initial committers are employed by large companies (including Twitter, > Yahoo!, Alibaba, Microsoft) and well-funded startups. Storm has an active > community of developers, and we are committed to recruiting additional > committers based on their contributions to the project. > > === Reliance on Salaried Developers === > > It is expected that Storm development will occur on both salaried time and > on volunteer time, after hours. The majority of initial committers are paid > by their employer to contribute to this project. However, they are all > passionate about the project, and we are confident that the project will > continue even if no salaried developers contribute to the project. We are > committed to recruiting additional committers including non-salaried > developers. > > === Relationships with Other Apache Products === > > As mentioned in the Alignment section, Storm is closely integrated with > Hadoop, > Zookeeper, Thrift, YARN and Mesos in a numerous ways. We look forward to > collaborating with those communities, as well as other Apache communities > (including Apache S4 which focuses on stateful low-latency processing). > > === An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === > > Storm is already a healthy and well known open source project. This > proposal is not for the purpose of generating publicity. Rather, the > primary benefits to joining Apache are those outlined in the Rationale > section. > > == Documentation == > > The reader will find these websites highly relevant: > > * Storm website: http://storm-project.net > * Storm documentation: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki > * Codebase: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm > * User group: https://groups.google.com/group/storm-user > > == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan == > > The Storm codebase is currently hosted on Github: > https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm. > > This is the exact codebase that we would migrate to the Apache foundation. > > The Storm source code is currently licensed under Eclipse Public License > Version 1.0. Some source code was contributed under a contributor agreement > based on the Sun contributor agreement (v1.5). More recent code has been > contributed under an Apache style agreement (see > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133901206/storm-apache-style-cla.txt). > > Upon entering Apache, Storm will migrate to an Apache License 2.0 with all > contributions licensed to the Apache Foundation. In certain cases where > individuals or organizations hold copyright, we will ensure they grant a > license to the Apache Foundation. Going forward, all commits will be > licensed directly to the Apache foundation through our signed Individual > Contributor License Agreements for all committers on the project. > > Yahoo! is also willing to move Storm-on-YARN code from github to be a > subproject of Apache Storm project. Storm-on-YARN is currently licensed > under Apache License 2.0 and receive contribution under Apache style CLA. > Upon entering Apache, Yahoo! will sign over copyright to Apache foundation. > > == External Dependencies == > > To the best of our knowledge, all of Storm dependencies (except 0MQ/JMQ) > are distributed under Apache compatible licenses. Upon acceptance to the > incubator, we would begin a thorough analysis of all transitive > dependencies to verify this fact and introduce license checking into the > build and release process (for instance integrating Apache Rat). > > Storm has used 0MQ and JMQ as the default mechanism for internal messaging > layer, and 0MQ/JMQ is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License. > Recently, we have made Storm messaging layer pluggable, and plan to use > Netty (which is licensed under Apache License v2) as our default messaging > plugin (while keep 0MQ as an optional plugin). > > == Cryptography == > > We do not expect Storm to be a controlled export item due to the use of > encryption. > > Storm enable encryptions via 2 plugins: > > * SASL authentication plugins … Currently, we have provide “no-op” > authentication and digest authentication. In near future, we will introduce > Kerberos authentication. > * Tuple payload serialization plugins … Storm provides plugins for > plain-object serialization and blowfish encryption. > > == Required Resources == > > === Mailing lists === > > * storm-user > * storm-dev > * storm-private (with moderated subscriptions) > > === Subversion Directory === > > Git is the preferred source control system: git://git.apache.org/storm > > === Issue Tracking === > > JIRA Storm (STORM) > > == Initial Committers == > > * Nathan Marz <nathan at nathanmarz dot com> > * James Xu <xumingmingv at gmail dot com> > * Jason Jackson <jason at cvk dot ca> > * Andy Feng <afeng at yahoo-inc dot com> > * Flip Kromer <flip at infochimps dot com> > * David Lao <davidlao at microsoft dot com> > * P. Taylor Goetz <ptgoetz at gmail dot com> > > == Affiliations == > > * Nathan Marz - Nathan’s Startup > * James Xu - Alibaba > * Jason Jackson - Twitter > * Andy Feng - Yahoo! > * Flip Kromer - Infochimps > * David Lao - Microsoft > * P. Taylor Goetz - Health Market Science > > == Sponsors == > > === Champion === > > * Doug Cutting <cutting at apache dot org> > > === Nominated Mentors === > > * Ted Dunning <tdunning at maprtech.com> > * Arvind Prabhaker <arvind at apache dot org> > * Devaraj Das <ddas at hortonworks dot com> > > === Sponsoring Entity === > > The Apache Incubator >
