Hi Mick I'm generally +1 and would be very happy to help but before voting can you clarify the position with other donations like https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/50 please?
Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau | Blog | Old Blog | Github | LinkedIn 2017-11-29 7:58 GMT+01:00 mck <m...@apache.org>: > Dear Apache Incubator Community, > > Please accept the following proposal for presentation and discussion: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SkyWalkingProposal > > SkyWalking is a distributed tracing solution that provides automatic > instrumentation, coming from a community of Chinese contributors. This > community has been involved with and part of the Distributed Tracing > workshops held by Adrian Cole (who maintains and develops Zipkin) and > the OpenTracing initiative. > > Sheng Wu reached out to me recently asking me to Champion the proposal > because of my involvement with OpenTracing, Zipkin, and these > Distributed Tracing workshops. The whole SkyWalking community has > demonstrated a keenness to join Apache, as is seen on their GitHub > issues discussing the matter. I'm excited to have been asked and have > gladly accepted. Furthermore at last year's ApacheCon in Vancouver I met > Luke Han during the ASF media workshop and watched his presentation > about the challenges of opening up ASF to chinese communities and > developers. Because of this we have reached out to Luke Han as an > additional mentor. The result of this was that Sheng met Luke in person > last weekend in Shanghai. Sheng also met Nicolas Hedhman in Shanghai. > And Willem Ning Jiang has also been added as a mentor, who is also from > Huawei and is currently involved in the ServiceComb proposal. Otherwise > I'm aware that I'm new to the Incubator and its processes, so any > additional mentors familiar with the finer details and precedence will > be most welcomed. > > regards, > Mick > > ---- > > = Abstract = > Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for > microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems. > Also known as a distributed tracing system. It provides an automatic way > to instrument applications: no need to change any of the source code of > the target application; and an collector with an very high efficiency > streaming module. > > = Proposal = > The goal of this proposal is to bring the existing Skywalking > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking codebase and existing > developers and community into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in > order to build a global, diverse and self-governed open source community > in APM field. > > This project started in Open Source on GitHub about more than 2 years > ago. Beginning with a small SDK and collector. So far the OpenSkywalking > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization governs the project > through the PMC and Committer Team. The major contributors are from > Huawei DevCloud Team, Tydic, Oneapm (APM vendor), Alibaba Group, > dangdang.com and cloudwise (APM vendor). > > OpenSkywalking is submitting this proposal to donate the Skywalking > sources code and associated artifacts (documentation, web site content, > wiki, etc.) to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator under the Apache > License, Version 2.0. These artifacts are currently available on GitHub > at https://github.com/OpenSkywalking and include: > * Skywalking: The java sniffer(agent) for collecting data, and > collector for analysing and persistence. > * Skywalking-UI: The web UI for skywalking APM > > Voted on submitting the proposal to the Incubator. > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/issues/11 > > = Background = > Mircro-service, Cloud Native and container-based architecture system are > becoming more and more popular, so the traditional monitoring, like > application loggings, can provide less information because of the > distributed isolates the relations. Based on the Google Dapper paper > https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html, many tracing systems > born. The OpenSkywalking organisation was created with Skywalking made > based on tracing, but not just tracing, it adds additional value by > reducing the sniffer (agent) cost, analysis and visualization. > > In 2015, Skywalking project started, when service-oriented architecture > became popular. At first, skywalking provided a very simple SDK, and > collected data into a HBASE cluster. After we opened on the GitHub, the > community gives the feedbacks about how difficult to maintain a HBase > cluster, even harder than the applications under monitored. So, in 2.x > 2016, skywalking provided a self-designed storage, and update the SDK to > a javaagent with supporting auto-instrumentation. Then since 2017, more > and more contributors joined, we set up the PMC team and committer team. > Skywalking evolved to an APM, and more and more features provided since > then. > > = Rationale = > Skywalking includes these primary parts: > 1. Provide an anto-instrument sniffer, which is based on Javaagent and > collects events and traces happened inside JVM, with little CPU/Memory > cost. > 2. An extendable `tracing data protocol suit` with gRPC and HTTP > implementations, is compatible for other language agent or SDK. > 3. Provide Collector, which accepts the `tracing data protocol suit`, > and does the analysis and aggregation inside for detecting the > relationships among applications and services, generating the metrics, > and altering. > 4. Provided our own UI, which visualizes the topological graph of > related applications and services, trace stack, metrics and alerting. > > Also, Skywalking team is passionate about community cooperations. > Skywalking is a supported tracer and member of OpenTracing > http://opentracing.io . Also we take part in the TraceContext Specs > https://github.com/TraceContext/tracecontext-spec , which is about > `tracing context propagation format`. The founder of the project, Sheng > Wu, is the member of these organizations, > > There is a strong need for an open, easy-to-use APM towards helping > today's DevOps people to monitor their running systems, while also being > easy and transparent to maintain and modify. > The Skywalking has been an hot open source project in GitHub. We feel > that by moving to Apache it will help us work in a more global and open > way, presenting the project as a commercial friendly but vendor neutral > technology. Under Apache's strong governance and existing processes, > hope is also to make the Skywalking releases more reliable, as is > crucial for monitoring systems running in any Application Zone. > > = Initial Goals = > Our initial goals are to bring Skywalking into the ASF. The most > important things are following ASF's governance module, and integrating > with Apache development process. Also moving the existing codebase to an > Apache git repository. > > = Current Status = > == Meritocracy == > Skywalking was originally created by Sheng Wu, 吴晟 > https://github.com/wu-sheng himself in May 2015, and opened in GitHub in > Nov. 8th, 2015. The project now has committers and users from many > companies. The newer committers of the project are guided by the existed > PMC and Committer Team members, by reviewing and discussing with them. > When they are ready, PMC will start a vote to promote him/her to become > a member of PMC and Committer Team. > Also after the founder, Sheng Wu, joined Huawei in 2017, Huawei DevCloud > decided to contribute and support the project. So he personally leads > the interested developers, and helps them to join the community quickly > and efficiently. Now we have set `Huawei Devcloud Contributor Team` for > them. > Contributions are always welcomed, highly valued. A lot of energy is > allocated to ensure help to all wishing to contribute. > > == Community == > OpenSkwaylking is supported by 5 companies: Huawei, shurenyun.com, > dangdang.com, tydic, nutz.cn , which are both contributing to the > project and also used it in product, also provide many important > feedbacks from their actual scenarios. > The contributors, who can provide employer informantions, are from > Huawei DevCloud Team, Tydic, Oneapm (APM vendor), Alibaba Group, > dangdang.com, cloudwise (APM vendor), jd.com, cig.cn, hecom.cn, and > www.suixingpay.com. > > == Core Developers == > The core developers are a diverse group of experienced open source > developers and team leaders. > * PMC members – > > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/blob/master/README.md#project-management-committee-pmc > * Committer Team members – > > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/blob/master/README.md#committer-team > > == Known Risks == > The project is well known in global tracing and APM field, and live more > than 2 years. We are not sure there exists a risk, but definitely have a > challenge for us. So far, the contributors, committers and confirmed > product use cases are all from China. > === Language and Culture === > Concerns have been raised about language challenges and, as is typical > for developers not strong in english, aware that the community can be > shy in a debate or disagreement when english is used. Having looked > through the project's history this concern can be seen to be minor. The > commitlog is in english, and so are the tickets and the pull requests. > The website and documentation is equally both english and chinese. The > community has been strict upon itself to ensure it became and stays so. > The use of chinese should not be seen as a problem, it is a multilingual > world, but it is important that english speakers feel included and able > to contribute freely to the project without having to ask for > translations. To deal with poor or broken english it's important that a > gentler and inclusive community is fostered. > > == Orphaned products == > The contributors and community cooperation brings the project from a > small concept into a real APM system. So far, many companies, e.g. > Huawei DevCloud, dangdang.com, tydic, jd.com, have their own > independency contribute team for Skywalking. So this is not risk of any > signs of orphaned or abandoned code. > > == Inexperience with Open Source == > The founder of the project, Sheng Wu, is an open source lover. He has > contributed for these open source projects: OpenTracing-Specification, > OpenTracing-Java, Motan, Hprose, OpenTracing specification-zh, > apache/incubator-rocketmq. > > Hongtao Gao, our committer team member, is the major maintainer of > sharding-jdbc https://github.com/shardingjdbc/sharding-jdbc and > elastic-job https://github.com/elasticjob/elastic-job since 2014. > > The project are following these two experienced open source people's > guidance. And glad to learn from the Apache Way. > > == Homogenous Developers == > The confirmed contributors list: > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/blob/master/README.md#contributors. > As mentioned above in the Community section. > > == Reliance on Salaried Developers == > First of all, most members of the PMC and Committer Team, are paid by > their employers (Huawei, Tydic, dangdang.com and OneAPM) to contribute > to this project. But we have to say, many of them have more than one > employer in the past 3 years contribution, but the contributions are > never stopped. We don't just depend on salaried contributors only. > Skywalking itself and the distributed tracing field are very attractive > and important for every company the contributors work in, and they have > no reason to stop them. Contributions and new committers are expected. > > == Relationships with Other Apache Products == > HBase was used as a backend before being rewritten, and that ZooKeeper, > httpcomponents, log4j and junit are used. Also we are considering all > java projects, especially big data technology, e.g. Hadoop, Hbase, > Cassandra. > > == A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand == > The ASF has a strong brand, and that brand is in itself attractive. > Skywalking will benefit from world wide collaboration and use cases. The > Apache brand will be duly respected and honored in regards to marketing > and publicity. Further more, with the help of Incubator PMC, we will > make every effort to follow the rules and policies of the ASF. > > == Documentation == > * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking/tree/master/docs > * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking/wiki > > == Initial Source == > The project consists of two distinct codebases: the server and the UI. > These have existed as separate git repositories. > * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking > * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking-ui > > == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan == > The project is under Apache Licensed 2.0 already. As soon as Skywalking > is approved to join Apache, we can transfer of source code to the Apache > Foundation. There is no legal issue. > All source artifacts (code and documentation) will be assigned copyright > to the ASF. Currently all artifacts are copyright to 'OpenSkywalking > Organization', so effort in this process pertains mostly to obtaining > the individual and corporation contributor agreements (ICLAs and CCLAs) > from all committers and PMC. > > == External Dependencies == > * Byte-buddy (Apache 2.0) > * gRPC (Apache 2.0) > * netty (Apache 2.0) > * guava (Apache 2.0) > * elasticsearch (Apache 2.0) > * H2 Driver (MPL 2.0 or EPL 1.0) > * Zookeeper Client (Apache 2.0) > * disruptor (Apache 2.0) > * junit (MPL) > * mockito (MIT) > * powermock (Apache 2.0) > * Spring (Apache 2.0) > * gson (Apache 2.0) > * httpcomponents (Apache 2.0) > * log4j (Apache 2.0) > * vis (Apache 2.0) > * webjars-boostrap (Apache 2.0) > * animate.css (MIT) > * jquery (js.foundation) > * jquery-ui (js.foundation) > * jsView (MIT) > * metisMenu (MIT) > * d3 (BSD-3) > * echarts (BSD-3) > * DataTables (MIT) > * requirejs (MIT) > * vue (MIT) > > = Required Resources = > == Mailing Lists == > * priv...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org (moderated subscriptions) > * comm...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org > * d...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org > * u...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org > > == Git Repositories == > * https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-skywalking.git > * https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-skywalking-ui.git > > == Issue Tracking == > GitHub Issues or JIRA Project Skywalking. > To be discussed further, there's a desire to continue to use GitHub > issues and it's now visible that other projects are using this. > > == Initial Incubator PMC == > * 吴晟, Sheng Wu @wu-sheng > * 彭勇升, Yongsheng Peng @peng-yongsheng > * 张鑫, Xin Zhang @ascrutae > > == Initial Committer == > * 吴晟, Sheng Wu @wu-sheng > * 彭勇升, Yongsheng Peng @peng-yongsheng > * 张鑫, Xin Zhang @ascrutae > * 高洪涛, Hongtao Gao @hanahmily > * 柏杨, Yang Bai @bai-yang > * 王凯, Kai Wang @oracle219 > * 李运涛, Yuntao Li @lytscu > * 汪盛, Sheng Wang @titsquid > * 司冬雪, Dongxue Si @IluckySi > * 张科伟, Kewei Zhang @zhangkewei > > = Champion = > * Michael Semb Wever, m...@apache.org > > Voted for skywalking Incubator champion. > https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/issues/12 > > = Mentors = > * Michael Semb Wever, m...@apache.org > * Luke Han, luke...@apache.org > * Willem Ning Jiang, ningji...@apache.org > > Skywalking received a lot helps from Michael Semb Wever about this > proposal and Apache way. 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