FYI, I'm super supportive of the spirit of this work. The goal of the project is a noble one that has real demand.
Sorry if my initial message sounded dour! I just wanted to make sure people were going in eyes wide open and give this project the best chance for success. On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 8:28 AM Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > I've shared this feedback with Jesus prior to the proposal but would like > to do here as well. This project is trying to make multiple open source > projects work together. It would be nice to see representation from > multiple of those communities. I feel that true success of this project is > heavily influenced by its acceptance of multiple communities, not just > those hailing from one. > > The name is a problem in that that it suggests inappropriate ties with > both OneLake and OneHouse, commercial products in the same space backed by > two companies the initial ipmc hail from. Normally I would be fine with the > typical "find a new name during incubation" process but the > market this technology is within is filled with fud and vitriol between > the backers of the multiple open source projects and I think it would be > best if the incubating project name had a placeholder name as opposed to > something that suggests any ASF sponsorship of vendor technologies. I > cynically suspect that if this is accepted we would then see one or more > vendors start writing about how ASF is backing OneTable before the renaming > would occur. Let's keep corporate influence out of this project from the > start. > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 11:25 AM Jesus Camacho Rodriguez <jcama...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I would like to propose a new project to the ASF incubator - OneTable. >> >> OneTable[1] is an omni-directional converter for table formats that >> facilitates interoperability across data processing systems and query >> engines. Currently, OneTable supports widely adopted open-source table >> formats such as Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. >> >> Here is the proposal - >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/OneTable+Proposal >> >> I would be the Champion of the project. I will mentor and help the project >> through the incubator with Hitesh Shah [hit...@apache.org], Stamatis >> Zampetakis [zabe...@apache.org], and Jean-Baptiste Onofré [ >> jbono...@apache.org]. >> >> We are looking forward to your feedback! >> >> Thanks, >> Jesús >> >> [1] https://github.com/onetable-io/onetable >> >
