----- Original Message ----
> From: Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com>
> To: thrift-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 6:01:19 PM
> Subject: Re: time for a reboot?
> Hey look, a thread about me!
>
> The majority of my contributions were at my previous job, but I did get
> committership and do the 0.2 release after joining Cloudera as Doug said.
> Cloudera does use Thrift internally, so having a stable release out was
> important for us.
>
> I haven't been as involved in further releases because frankly, Thrift does
> what it's supposed to do and does a good job of it. What the ASF seems to
> see as a stagnating project seems to me to just be a mature one - Thrift has
> a single purpose, achieves it effectively, and does a good job for lots and
> lots of people including both my former and current employers. The major
> issues I've run into (and seen coworkers run into) have had to do with the
> release packaging and build, which we've improved a bit, and will improve on
> the distribution side of things as people like Debian start packaging the
> bits.
My concern is more that Thrift has become a 1-man show over the past
year than that there is stagnation here. Jira tickets get filed, commits
happen, and eventually releases happen, but that's all being done by the
heroism of Bryan. Apache projects are collaborative in nature, and
usually committers care enough about one another not to let one person
carry the project along all by themselves. If there isn't sufficient
interest amongst the current committers to participate in development,
perhaps we should be recruiting from those filing patches in Jira.
With respect to commit-then-review, httpd has had that as its policy since
the very beginning, and it manages to produce consistently stable releases.
Ditto for the subversion project. Hadoop is certainly not the model of
Apache-style version-control tree management that others should aspire to,
FWIW. There are serious internal concerns about the overall health of the
hadoop development ecosystem as it continues to evolve towards a 1.0 release.
