Note the non-kafka bug was filed right before the change was pushed. So there really wasn't any discussion before the decision was made to remove that code.
I'm just trying to merge both discussions here in the list where it's a little bit more dynamic than bug updates that end up getting lost in the noise. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote: > Why would a PMC vote be necessary on every code deletion? > > There was a Jira and pull request discussion about the submodules that > have been removed so far. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13843 > > There's another ongoing one about Kafka specifically > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13877 > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Mridul Muralidharan <mri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I was not aware of a discussion in Dev list about this - agree with most of >> the observations. >> In addition, I did not see PMC signoff on moving (sub-)modules out. >> >> Regards >> Mridul >> >> >> >> On Thursday, March 17, 2016, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Recently a lot of the streaming backends were moved to a separate >>> project on github and removed from the main Spark repo. >>> >>> While I think the idea is great, I'm a little worried about the >>> execution. Some concerns were already raised on the bug mentioned >>> above, but I'd like to have a more explicit discussion about this so >>> things don't fall through the cracks. >>> >>> Mainly I have three concerns. >>> >>> i. Ownership >>> >>> That code used to be run by the ASF, but now it's hosted in a github >>> repo owned not by the ASF. That sounds a little sub-optimal, if not >>> problematic. >>> >>> ii. Governance >>> >>> Similar to the above; who has commit access to the above repos? Will >>> all the Spark committers, present and future, have commit access to >>> all of those repos? Are they still going to be considered part of >>> Spark and have release management done through the Spark community? >>> >>> >>> For both of the questions above, why are they not turned into >>> sub-projects of Spark and hosted on the ASF repos? I believe there is >>> a mechanism to do that, without the need to keep the code in the main >>> Spark repo, right? >>> >>> iii. Usability >>> >>> This is another thing I don't see discussed. For Scala-based code >>> things don't change much, I guess, if the artifact names don't change >>> (another reason to keep things in the ASF?), but what about python? >>> How are pyspark users expected to get that code going forward, since >>> it's not in Spark's pyspark.zip anymore? >>> >>> >>> Is there an easy way of keeping these things within the ASF Spark >>> project? I think that would be better for everybody. >>> >>> -- >>> Marcelo >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org >>> >> -- Marcelo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
