Re: Begin a discussion about ZooKeeper as a top level project

2010-03-30 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Agreed. ZooKeeper is very useful as part of the Hadoop project (which I don't use myself :-) Don't fix it ! Op 22 mrt 2010, om 19:32 heeft Patrick Hunt het volgende geschreven: > You have probably heard by now that there is a discussion going on in > the Hadoop PMC as to whether a number of the

Re: Begin a discussion about ZooKeeper as a top level project

2010-03-23 Thread Henry Robinson
The tl;dr version of the below is that I'm keen for ZooKeeper to become a TLP in the future, but it's not (yet) clear that now is the right time. 1. Is there any way in which the current structure practically hinders ZooKeeper's active development? One concern that has been raised elsewhere is tha

Re: Begin a discussion about ZooKeeper as a top level project

2010-03-23 Thread Mahadev Konar
I agree with Ben here. I think we do need sometime to get more bodies contributing to the ZooKeeper codebase. Being a subproject of Hadoop gives us quite a few benefits like branding/discoverability (as Pat mentioned). These benefits are important to us given our small developer base and the limite

Re: Begin a discussion about ZooKeeper as a top level project

2010-03-23 Thread Flavio Junqueira
It is difficult for me to make up my mind as I feel I don't have enough information to decide. Right now it feels that there is no concrete major benefit to move to TLP status. My impression is that the Hadoop PMC has represented us well and helped us all along, so I believe our position is

Re: Begin a discussion about ZooKeeper as a top level project

2010-03-22 Thread Benjamin Reed
pat, i think you articulated well the problems with becoming a TLP. you don't seem to have voted for one of the options though :) i guess my view corresponds to option 2). it does seem like a good idea in the long term for ZooKeeper to become its own project, but for the near term, for the rea

Begin a discussion about ZooKeeper as a top level project

2010-03-22 Thread Patrick Hunt
You have probably heard by now that there is a discussion going on in the Hadoop PMC as to whether a number of the subprojects (Hbase, Avro, Zookeeper, Hive, and Pig) should move out from under the Hadoop umbrella and become top level Apache projects (TLP). This discussion has picked up recently s