+1 -----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Cutting Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VOTE] Pig graduation to hadoop subproject
+1 Doug Olga Natkovich wrote: > Pig Developers and Mentors, > > Pig has been incubating for over a year now. In this period of time, we > had extended our community with 2 new committers, had a release, > resolved 300 issues. We have made some significant code improvements > including pipeline redesign, addition of streaming and limit > functionality, grunt shell improvements and significant performance > speedup. We have a constant traffic and lively discussions on both > pig-dev and pig-user mailing lists and we conduct our business in the > open by publishing proposals and discussing them in the mailing lists. > > As of now, we have completed graduation requirements as described in > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html. > > I would like to call for a graduation vote at this time. > > I would also propose that we graduate as a subproject of Hadoop. There > are several advantages to this approach. First, this would allow us to > extend both our user and developer base. Second, it would bring benefits > to the Hadoop community by providing a higher level interface and easier > entry point for new users. Third, having an established project to > provide guidance, would help Pig to become a mature participant in the > open source community. > > Please, vote by the end of the day on Thursday, 10/9. > > Thanks, > > Olga > > PS: I am ccing hadoop and incubator general mailing lists; however, no > action is required from them at this time. This step is for Pig > community only. >
