100% agree with Sean & Reynold's comments on this. Adding this as a TLP would just cause more confusion as to "official" endorsement.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I know the name might be confusing, but I also think that the projects have >> a very big synergy, more like sibling projects, where "Spark Extras" extends >> the Spark community and develop/maintain components for, and pretty much >> only for, Apache Spark. Based on your comment above, if making the project >> "Spark-Extras" a more acceptable name, I believe this is ok as well. > > This also grants special status to a third-party project. It's not > clear this should be *the* official unofficial third-party Spark > project over some other one. If something's to be blessed, it should > be in the Spark project. > > And why isn't it in the Spark project? the argument was that these > bits were not used and pretty de minimis as code. It's not up to me or > anyone else to tell you code X isn't useful to you. But arguing X > should be a TLP asserts it is substantial and of broad interest, since > there's non-zero effort for volunteers to deal with it. I am not sure > I've heard anyone argue that -- or did I miss it? because removing > bits of unused code happens all the time and isn't a bad precedent or > even unusual. > > It doesn't actually enable any more cooperation than is already > possible with any other project (like Kafka, Mesos, etc). You can run > the same governance model anywhere you like. I realize literally being > operated under the ASF banner is something different. > > What I hear here is a proposal to make an unofficial official Spark > project as a TLP, that begins with these fairly inconsequential > extras. I question the value of that on its face. Example: what goes > into this project? deleted Spark code only? or is this a glorified > "contrib" folder with a lower and somehow different bar determined by > different people? > > And at that stage... is it really helping to give that special status? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
