2013/12/12 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> > Just a tiny note due to overload ;) > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'll leave it to Otis to give more details, because he's an Apache > > committer, but I believe there's a misunderstanding here. > > > > An Apache project can still be backed up by a commercial company. Lots of > > projects are, like Solr, Flume (another logging product!) and so on. The > > main advantage I see is that it's easier for the community to contribute > > and drive the project forward. It's a model that seems to work for > > open-source software, and lots of projects who got in there are doing > very > > well - very active, growing, lots of people offering > > consulting&support&professional services, building more complex products > on > > top of them, packaging them in various ways, etc > > > > I think this is an idea that would help drive more contributions and > > hopefully solve the 24 hours/day problem that keeps popping up lately, > more > > and more as rsyslog gets more attention. To prove the "attention" theory, > > let's look at some trends for rsyslog and some other products that came > up > > in discussions lately: > > > > > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rsyslog%2C%20logstash%2C%20syslog-ng&cmpt=q > > > > And the mailing list traffic: > > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.rsyslog > > > > Maybe going to Apache would be a crazy idea in the sense that it requires > > following that procedure. And people already have too little time. Maybe > a > > less crazy idea is just to put it on GitHub or somewhere similar where it > > would be easy to just send pull requests. > > > Well... done so 6 month ago ;) This is the initial blog post with some > progress: > > http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/05/moving-to-github.html > > Was announced at several places. Overall feedback is "not bad, but no real > difference". > > Judging from the answers like "that would ROCK", I'd say it looks like a good idea from other people's perspective, too :)
I would just do that if it's not much effort, and talk about Apache-ness some more - as I personally don't know if it will help and by how much. I'm thinking costs vs benefits. Regarding costs: @Rainer: which parts are currently GPL? Who are the authors? Can't they be contacted and asked nicely, for the sake of the project, to change the license? @Otis: do you know what other costs (in terms of work&time) are required to get a project like rsyslog in and through the Incubator <http://incubator.apache.org/>? Regarding benefits: @Otis can you say some more? I think I'll confuse people more with my limited knowledge. Wait, I found two interesting links that may help: On community development: https://community.apache.org/contributors/ On how ASF works: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
