However, as I understand it, this would involve the development of a contrib module, not a set of patches to trunk. Therefore there's no issue of 'tying' ZooKeeper to River.
I'm ill placed to judge whether this would be a contribution that many people would use, but we should not reject it before we even discuss it on a JIRA. It certainly seems like a positive contribution, and we have historically been interested in integrating with service frameworks. Brian, I'd encourage you to open a JIRA and contribute your code. We'll discuss the technical merits there. cheers, Henry On 21 March 2010 09:38, Brian Murphy <btmurphy....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Jonathan Reichhold < > jonathan.reichh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apache River is dying from lack of updates. > > > Hmm, I suppose "dying" is a matter of opinion, or one's > perspective. > > If you're talking about the lack of an official release, > no argument there. But, for what it's worth, that might > be more a function of the many differing opinions > being voiced by the various parties interested in that > project; which has driven some away, but has been > viewed by others as healthy discourse. > > For example, because the river codebase provides > an infrastructure rather than a specific application, and is > fairly mature and stable, some of the river meritocracy feel > that the project should move more slowly than application > based apache projects typically move, whereas others feel > just the opposite. I generally leave these sort of arguments > for others to worry about though. I'm usually more interested > in whether the code serves the needs of the project I'm on > (which in this case, both river and zookeeper do). > > Fortunately, the project I'm currently on doesn't need any > major new features from river. The numerous patches > and updates that have been feeding into the pending 2.1.1 > release (currently under vote) have been more than enough > to serve our needs, and have been put to quite good use. > But of course, your needs and experiences may be different. > > > > not sure tying to a project which hasn't moved since 2008 is a > > good idea for a contribution to Zookeeeper. > > > Okay, thanks for the honest answer, Jonathan. This is what > we were trying to find out by posing the original question to > the Zookeeper community. Since we don't want to be disruptive, > we'll simply continue developing the code in our own namespace. > No harm, no foul. > > Thanks, > Brian > -- Henry Robinson Software Engineer Cloudera 415-994-6679
