RE: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
No... Knowing Noel, he was not opening anything. He was speaking to general principles about how the Incubator works. +1 --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel Kulp
Doug, As Greg and others have pointed out, none of this really matters, but since, you did ask for some examples, I can think of two immediately: 1) As Dim's pointed out, when CXF entered the incubator, it obviously conflicted directly with Axis2. Many ideas were the same. Many of the

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-13 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:34, Doug Meil doug.m...@explorysmedical.com wrote: re:  overlap This is the there are multiple webservers in ASF counter-argument - except that ones that exist are in two different languages (Apache WS and Tomcat).  The point I made in my email is that if a 3rd

RE: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Doug Meil wrote: I think that the ASF and ASF incubator leadership should consider it a priority to foster such communication. We do. I, in particular, tend to do it --- and have on occassion been criticized for trying to foster project collaboration and/or merger. BUT ... The Incubator

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-12 Thread Doug Meil
Hi there- I thought the email chain prompted by my questions had a gracious and productive ending several days ago, but if you would like to start this up again, ok. re: turf is being infringed It's funny that you said that, because according to the other emails on Accumulo in the past week

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 22:34, Doug Meil doug.m...@explorysmedical.com wrote: Hi there- I thought the email chain prompted by my questions had a gracious and productive ending several days ago, but if you would like to start this up again, ok. No... Knowing Noel, he was not opening

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Doug Meil, SNIP Lots of incubator proposals come from groups of people with little or no prior track record at Apache or in Open Source at all. The point of incubation is to give them a chance to either learn how

Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Doug Meil
I am writing to state my concerns with the Accumulo Incubator proposal, the HBase copy/clone. 1) “Accumulo has been in development since spring 2008.” I don’t fault anybody for being scared of HBase in 2008 – you’d have to be pretty brave to use it then. HBase 0.20 was the first release to

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Benson Margulies
Doug, I was criticizing my message, not yours in that respect. which should have been clear from the comment justifying. On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Doug Meil doug.m...@explorysmedical.com wrote: Greetings Benson, re: top-posting is generally less than ideal It's funny that you would say

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 9/6/2011 10:07 PM, Doug Meil wrote: ...snip... I'll let the other HBase team members speak for themselves, but my request to ASF is that if somebody proposes something that nearly exactly like an existing ASF project, and it's implemented in the same language, and it even copies their code -

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 9/6/2011 9:56 PM, Doug Meil wrote: Re: Highlander Greatest movie ever. Don't forget the sequel! Highlander: There Should Have Been Only One But in terms of incubator proposals, technical competition is fine. - Shane

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Doug Meil
+1 to that. Holy smokes, that second one really sucked. :-) On 9/7/11 8:55 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: On 9/6/2011 9:56 PM, Doug Meil wrote: Re: Highlander Greatest movie ever. Don't forget the sequel! Highlander: There Should Have Been Only One But in

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Doug Meil
Thanks for the feedback folks. I would caution that it is not possible to simultaneously optimize for both of these goals... 1) Community over code 2) Competition is good ... as both will be lost. Particularly where the latter contains the absence of inter-project communication, and

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Phillip Rhodes
I think that the ASF and ASF incubator leadership should consider it a priority to foster such communication.  And this means asking the questions I asked before, e.g,. you guys are trying to do the same thing as...  Have you talked them?  Consider it Open-Source Project Parenting. FWIW,

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Stack
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Adam P Fuchs adam.p.fu...@ugov.gov wrote: ...Furthermore, I believe that having both projects be part of ASF gives us more of an opportunity to collaborate going forwards. Whether we find that there are enough competing ideas to support two top level projects,

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Billie J Rinaldi
On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:34:20 PM, Stack st...@duboce.net wrote: I agree w/ Doug that 'unlikely to' is not a correct characterization. Would the following alteration be more accurate? It may be possible to incorporate the desired features of Accumulo into HBase. However, the amount

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Stack
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Billie J Rinaldi billie.j.rina...@ugov.gov wrote: On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:34:20 PM, Stack st...@duboce.net wrote: I agree w/ Doug that 'unlikely to' is not a correct characterization. Would the following alteration be more accurate? It may be

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Folks, A bit of back story of a slightly similar situation before. We have had Axis/Axis2 projects in Apache for a long time and along came the XFire proposal (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CeltiXfireProposal) and we had the same kind of discussions as i see here. Flash forward, Both Axis2

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Davanum Srinivas dava...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, A bit of back story of a slightly similar situation before. We have had Axis/Axis2 projects in Apache for a long time and along came the XFire proposal (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CeltiXfireProposal) and

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Billie J Rinaldi
On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 4:14:26 PM, Stack st...@duboce.net wrote: From my perspective, that is more the case though your second sentence above comes across as a setup for our not integrating. How about this? It may be possible to incorporate the desired features of Accumulo into HBase.

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Stack
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Billie J Rinaldi billie.j.rina...@ugov.gov wrote: How about this? It may be possible to incorporate the desired features of Accumulo into HBase.  However, the amount of work required would slow development of HBase and Accumulo considerably.  We believe this

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Sounds great! -- dims On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Billie J Rinaldi billie.j.rina...@ugov.gov wrote: On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 4:14:26 PM, Stack st...@duboce.net wrote: From my perspective, that is more the case though your second sentence above comes across as a setup for our not

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-07 Thread Doug Meil
Thanks Phil, much appreciated. On 9/7/11 12:19 PM, Phillip Rhodes motley.crue@gmail.com wrote: I think that the ASF and ASF incubator leadership should consider it a priority to foster such communication. And this means asking the questions I asked before, e.g,. you guys are trying

Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Doug Meil
I am writing to state my concerns with the Accumulo Incubator proposal, the HBase copy/clone. 1) “Accumulo has been in development since spring 2008.” I don’t fault anybody for being scared of HBase in 2008 – you’d have to be pretty brave to use it then. HBase 0.20 was the first release to

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Benson Margulies
Doug Meil, Top-posting is generally less than idea, but I want to respond to the overall theme of your message, not to individual points and sentences. The attitude of various chunks of the US government to Open Source has changed radically over the last few years. What would have been

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
, 2011 8:06 PM Subject: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern I am writing to state my concerns with the Accumulo Incubator proposal, the HBase copy/clone. 1)  “Accumulo has been in development since spring 2008.” I don’t fault anybody for being scared of HBase in 2008 – you’d have

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Doug Meil
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 8:06 PM Subject: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern I am writing to state my concerns with the Accumulo Incubator proposal, the HBase copy/clone. 1) ³Accumulo has been in development since spring 2008.² I don¹t fault anybody for being scared

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Doug Meil
Greetings Benson, re: top-posting is generally less than ideal It's funny that you would say that, because there was a 17 message email-chain about Accumulo this past weekend that you participated in, and I noticed that you didn't tell any of those people that posting on this dist-list was a

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Adam P Fuchs
Hello Doug, I appreciate your concerns, and I would like to try to provide some context that might help you understand why we think the ASF is the right place for Accumulo. Benson is correct that the Accumulo developers have historically not been authorized to participate in public