Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-17 Thread Ian Holsman
ok.. so we have 4 mentors..time for a vote.. Avinash.. do u want to do the honors? Noel J. Bergman wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: The Champion can be expected to be a Mentor (see below, though). No extra uber anything. No greater (or lessor) of equals.

RE: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Torsten Curdt wrote: Isn't the champion expected to be the ubermentor anyway? Oh, please, no. :-) Leave off the adjective. The Champion can be expected to be a Mentor (see below, though). No extra uber anything. No greater (or lessor) of equals. Or to rephrase this: does the vote of the

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-15 Thread Torsten Curdt
Isn't the champion expected to be the ubermentor anyway? Oh, please, no. :-) Leave off the adjective. The Champion can be expected to be a Mentor (see below, though). No extra uber anything. No greater (or lessor) of equals. Well, that's somehow how I read it from

RE: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Torsten Curdt wrote: The Champion can be expected to be a Mentor (see below, though). No extra uber anything. No greater (or lessor) of equals. http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Mentor From that document (redacted for clarity): Champion: A Member of the

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
Isn't the champion expected to be the ubermentor anyway? Or to rephrase this: does the vote of the champion not count? ... or can one person be champion and mentor? Anyway ... I think it would be nice to find more than just 3 mentors. BTW: Just realized I am not members of the Incubator PMC.

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Torsten Curdt wrote: Isn't the champion expected to be the ubermentor anyway? Or to rephrase this: does the vote of the champion not count? ... or can one person be champion and mentor? Yes and should be called out as both. BTW: Just realized I am not members of the Incubator PMC. Wasn't

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-13 Thread Matthieu Riou
If you need one more, you can count me in. Cheers, Matthieu On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:38 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: Ian Holsman wrote: I'll be a mentor. do we need 2 or 3? That would be nice, yes. 3 mentors == 3 binding votes.

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-13 Thread Brian McCallister
I am expecting to be a mentor. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Matthieu Riou matthieu.r...@gmail.com wrote: If you need one more, you can count me in. Cheers, Matthieu On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:38 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: Ian Holsman wrote: I'll be a mentor.

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-12 Thread Ian Holsman
It's been ~10 days since the cassandra proposal was put up. are people comfortable enough with this to put it to a vote? I have some personal opinions, but I'll keep them to myself. On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Ian Holsman li...@holsman.net wrote: As the FB guys seem to be a bit busy, I'll

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Ian Holsman li...@holsman.net wrote: It's been ~10 days since the cassandra proposal was put up. are people comfortable enough with this to put it to a vote?... No - the proposal [1] still only lists a single mentor. Or is Brian planning to be a mentor as well?

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-12 Thread Ian Holsman
I'll be a mentor. do we need 2 or 3? On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Ian Holsman li...@holsman.net wrote: It's been ~10 days since the cassandra proposal was put up. are people comfortable enough with this

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ian Holsman wrote: I'll be a mentor. do we need 2 or 3? That would be nice, yes. 3 mentors == 3 binding votes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Holsman
yep. but at the moment the FB guys are driving it, and are a bit upset at me for suggesting to fork it due to lack of activity on the original project, and I can't answer the concerns raised (is this an orphaned project in FB, and who the dedicated pool of users are). regards Ian. On Sat, Dec

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Holsman
As the FB guys seem to be a bit busy, I'll take a stab at answering this. Firstly cassandra uses a gossip protocol for dynamic addition (and removal) of servers from the pool. when you bring up a new node you simply configure a set of seeds for it to initially communicate to and your away. It is

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-05 Thread Ian Holsman
I guess once these things are addressed we could look further into it, and you could start looking for a project sponsor (db.apache.org perhaps?) and some more mentors. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Otis Gospodnetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The distributed storage system for

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-05 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess once these things are addressed we could look further into it, and you could start looking for a project sponsor (db.apache.org perhaps?) and some more mentors. As you seem to have been one of the drivers behind

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-04 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hello, The distributed storage system for managing structured/unstructured data while providing reliability at a massive scale. part sounds kind of like HDFS. Would it be possible to describe how Cassandra is different from HDFS? Perhaps the best place to do it is under the Relationships

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-02 Thread Torsten Curdt
None of the developers are salaried specifically to work on Cassandra to our knowledge None of the developers is working on this project during work hours? Cassandra has already attracted a stable base of users Do you have a ballpark of how many users? External Dependencies I would list the

Re: Cassandra Incubator Proposal

2008-12-02 Thread Ian Holsman
Hi Guys. my 2c's you need to put the employer names of the initial commiters. The reliance on salaried employee's is misleading, as Facebook employs the majority of the core developers, and at one stage they were dedicated to maintaining this. Another risk I would put down is lack of