Re: Question from a mentor after reviewing the latest report

2018-06-18 Thread Alan Gates
I'd start by looking through https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html and seeing if you're in ready. Assuming you conclude you're ready, the next step is to start a [DISCUSS] thread on dev to see if others in the community agree and to start building the graduation proposal to send to t

Re: Question from a mentor after reviewing the latest report

2018-06-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Yes I agree, it is time to approach graduation. What would be the first steps? On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Alan Gates wrote: > As long as Tephra has a group of PMC members willing to carry it forward, I > think graduation is a good path. I'm not trying to push you into being a > subproject

Re: Question from a mentor after reviewing the latest report

2018-06-14 Thread Alan Gates
As long as Tephra has a group of PMC members willing to carry it forward, I think graduation is a good path. I'm not trying to push you into being a subproject. Andreas, do you agree that Tephra is ready to start thinking about graduation? Alan. On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:48 AM Andreas Neumann

Re: Question from a mentor after reviewing the latest report

2018-06-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
My 2 cents: I think in its current scope, Tephra is quite mature and complete. The next big step would be to implement a fully distributed transaction manager, with replication and consensus protocol to ensure consistency. That would be a major undertaking and I am not sure that it would be feasi

Re: Question from a mentor after reviewing the latest report

2018-06-12 Thread Alan Gates
If you have a viable community of developers who are interested in ongoing development (even if it is at a slower pace) then I think you're ready to start moving towards graduation. Having a project that focuses on a niche case isn't a problem, as long as you have the developers to keep moving it

Re: Question from a mentor after reviewing the latest report

2018-06-12 Thread Poorna Chandra
Hi Alan, Tephra is now mostly feature complete for the basic transaction use-case. We need to now start working on features like replication, scalability, etc. When we start working on those features, you will again start seeing activity in terms of JIRAs and patches. Transactions on HBase is a