On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Aaron Cordova <[email protected]> wrote: > Benson, > > Just to be clear (I had to re-read your email a few times to understand) > you're saying a real-time online discussion such as Adam is proposing has the > potential to exclude some members of the dev community and that we should be > sure to stick to things like this email discussion to avoid those problems?
Small adjustment: email avoids these problems, but I'm not telling you that online is 'forbidden'. Just that, as a community, you should be careful to avoid excluding people. One schema: publish minutes, and be sure that you don't consider a decision final until it's ratified on-list. > > > Thanks, > > Aaron > > > On Feb 1, 2013, at 2:36 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I want to caution everyone that this process skates close to an edge >> of an Apache invariant. An online forum has the potential to exclude >> people in far-away time zones or with other constraints. At Apache, we >> try to maximize the use of email to avoid this problem. >> >> Nothing here is an absolute -- I'm not trying to torpedo this plan >> altogether. >> >> Nothing, that is, except except that _decisions_ must be made on the >> mailing list afterwards. >> >> If anyone in the dev community feels excluded by this prospect, I >> would encourage you to speak up now, so that the planners can make >> adjustments to minimize that. >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Billie Rinaldi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Eric Newton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> What is CAS? >>>> >>>> - Switch to Curator. >>>> - Monitoring. I'm hoping this will just be integration with an existing >>>> tool. >>>> - Namespaces. >>>> - A simple query language. Perhaps there's something we can collaborate >>>> with some of the other NoSQL folks. >>>> - Update the wiki search example. >>>> - Automatic tablet merge. >>>> - Scalable NN >>>> >>> >>> Is scalable NN == ACCUMULO-722? I'd be excited about that for 1.6. >>> >>> Billie >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Some of these don't need design documents, but some discussion of >>>> requirements would be nice. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This will be very useful. >>>>> >>>>> Some new features I am thinking about for 1.6 are replication, CAS, >>>>> and Percolator. I would like to put together a bit of an initial >>>>> design document for each of these. I'm thinking that a follow up >>>>> online deep dive on the design of each large new 1.6 feature would >>>>> also be very useful. >>>>> >>>>> In the coming week I plan to spend most of my time testing, >>>>> documenting, fixing bugs, and polishing 1.5.0. I do not think this >>>>> would leave much time to work on 1.6. So interleaving design >>>>> discussion about new 1.6 features while 1.5 is being polished would be >>>>> nice. So once 1.5.0 ships, I would have peer reviewed designs to >>>>> start implementing. >>>>> >>>>> Keith >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Adam Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Now that we're past feature freeze for 1.5, I'd like to set up a >>>>> discussion >>>>>> of the features that Accumulo developers are interested in for 1.6 and >>>>>> beyond. The purpose of this discussion will be to raise awareness of >>>>>> projects that you think are cool and important, and to rally the >>>>> community. >>>>>> As a proposed format, let's plan on a series of 2-5 minute >>>> presentations >>>>> of >>>>>> individual features -- what it is, why it's important, how should we >>>>> build >>>>>> it, and who needs to help. We'll record the presentations for >>>> posterity. >>>>>> >>>>>> Since the community is now distributed throughout several states, let's >>>>> try >>>>>> our hand at an online discussion. Depending on participation, we'll >>>> pick >>>>> a >>>>>> forum that can accomodate everyone. If you're interested in attending, >>>>>> please fill out this doodle with what time you would be available: >>>>>> http://www.doodle.com/w9zb77ya3ykxr4zv >>>>>> >>>>>> If you can, please try to fill out the survey by Tuesday afternoon. >>>> After >>>>>> we get a good feel for times and participation, I'll schedule an online >>>>>> forum and send out a meeting invitation. If you would like to present a >>>>>> feature, send me an email directly at [email protected], and I'll make >>>>> sure >>>>>> you get time to present it. >>>>>> >>>>>> I look forward to seeing what everyone has up their sleeves! >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Adam >>>>> >>>> >
