On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:18 PM Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> >> In my limited experience, when ASF projects don't reliably make >> maintenance releases, enterprise customers turn to vendors to provide >> a source of conservative updates. Phrased another way, it's a thing >> that I see pointed to for why a decision maker might pick a vendor >> "powered by" an asf project rather than asf blessed releases. >> >> > I've seen that, too. Are you suggesting that's a problem? > > I'm interested in providing more frequent releases on fewer maintenance > branches. But, if a vendor wants to provide an alternate upgrade path to > fill a specific need for users with special requirements for earlier > branches, I think that's fine.
Yeah, I generally consider it a problem. It cuts off a part of our potential community funnel for increasing participation. What incentive is there for the folks working on/with Accumulo at Big Co, Inc to engage with us here if they have to wait for Vendor Y to actually get their changes into a format they can make use of? -- busbey
