I've struggled to get customers to engage in mailing lists -- not just for Apache Accumulo -- but other open source projects -- so I'm afraid I cannot share the same opinion on the need for formality -- especially since this revolves around a security focused feature.
In my personal experience vendors who support projects directly are a bit more vocal but companies who use a project ( and are generally more focused on BL) are reluctant to engage -- and, a few in my experience, forbade it from their vendors until they determined it safe to do so. With that said I have a customer for whom I cannot speak publicly. Would they have an issue if support was removed? *Yes.* I know others on this list are in the same situation. I will do my best to coax them into contributing something if they can. Best of luck gathering feedback. Thanks, Marc On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 1:34 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > The ASF doesn't have a formal system on which we could reliably conduct > such a poll. This is just an informal open discussion with mailing list > subscribers. If somebody wanted to gather anonymous poll data and > contribute it to the discussion here, they are welcome to do that, and we > can consider its utility at that time if it happens, but I don't think it's > necessary to formalize a poll and add anonymity as a first attempt to get > feedback from users here. It's not a particularly sensitive question to ask > whether users would be impacted by the removal of any particular feature. > If users have sensitivities in answering, they can just be terse in their > response, respond privately off list, through a proxy, or not at all. We > can already expect that any responses will not be a complete picture > anyway, since not every user is subscribed to the mailing list. This is > just a best effort attempt to get some initial feedback. > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 13:20 Marc Parisi <phroc...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Would the data be any less useful if this were an anonymous poll? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Christopher Shannon < >> christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Oops, I cc'd the wrong dev list so make sure responses go to the right >> one. >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:50 PM Christopher Shannon < >> > christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hello Apache Accumulo Users, >> >> >> >> The Accumulo PMC would like to get some feedback on how widely used >> >> Kerberos[1] support currently is with existing users. Specifically we >> would >> >> like some feedback on the following questions: >> >> >> >> 1) Who is currently using Kerberos support with Apache Accumulo? >> >> 2) If you are using it, would you have an issue if support was removed >> in >> >> a future version? >> >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> [1] https://accumulo.apache.org/docs/2.x/security/kerberos >> >> >> > >> >
