Re: Improving governance / committers (split from Spark Improvement Proposals thread)

2016-10-10 Thread Holden Karau
I think it is really important to ensure that someone with a good understanding of Kafka is empowered around this component with a formal voice around - but I don't have much dev experience with our Kafka connectors so I can't speak to the specifics around it personally. More generally, I also

Re: Improving governance / committers (split from Spark Improvement Proposals thread)

2016-10-08 Thread Cody Koeninger
It's not about technical design disagreement as to matters of taste, it's about familiarity with the domain. To make an analogy, it's as if a committer in MLlib was firmly intent on, I dunno, treating a collection of categorical variables as if it were an ordered range of continuous variables.

Re: Improving governance / committers (split from Spark Improvement Proposals thread)

2016-10-08 Thread Matei Zaharia
This makes a lot of sense; just to comment on a few things: > - More committers > Just looking at the ratio of committers to open tickets, or committers > to contributors, I don't think you have enough human power. > I realize this is a touchy issue. I don't have dog in this fight, > because I'm