+1 On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:50 AM Jakob Homan <jgho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lots of Apache projects use ?IPs - Whatever Improvement Proposal - to > document and gather consensus on large changes to the code base. Some > examples: > * Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIP) - > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals > * Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) - > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Flink+Improvement+Proposals > * Spark Improvement Proposal (SPIP) - > https://spark.apache.org/improvement-proposals.html > > We've got a few changes that have been discussed, either on the > list/JIRA (good) or in private (bad - > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/committer.html#mailing_lists) that > are of a magnitude that they may benefit from some version of this > process. Examples: > * The in-progress plan to refactor out connectors and hooks > (AIRFLOW-2732) > * K8S deployment operator proposal > * Initial Design for Supporting fine-grained Connection encryption > > > The benefits of this approach is that the design is hosted somewhere > less ephemeral and more editable than email. It also provides a > framework for documenting and confirming consensus through the whole > community. > > What do y'all think? > > -Jakob >