To provide some more context, we are exploring other alternatives besides Thrift for the RPC layer. Specifically I’ve been prototyping gRPC, which has some nice benefits and features, but it is based on Netty snd HTTP/2 and does not support Kerberos or SASL.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM Marc Parisi <phroc...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >>> >> >>> > >>> >>
