I gather it needs to be a description of the problem area but it's impossible to nail down everything in one sentence. For comparison, Drill's motion said "... related to interactive analysis of large-scale datasets".
So I actually just took the first sentence of Calcite's project description from the project status page[2]. A good topic for another thread would be "what is Calcite's positioning?" How do we describe Calcite in a phrase, a sentence, or a paragraph? Do we emphasize its SQL compliance or - my preference - its support for a variety of front-end languages and back-end engines via an intermediate algebra. The web site[3] is my attempt to boil it down to 3 bullet points. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201410.mbox/%3ccajka4mgwatvihxmftae6jnlqd-tts9ceju9kkxt-87p_s9j...@mail.gmail.com%3E [2] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/calcite.html [3] http://calcite.incubator.apache.org/ On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Aman Sinha <asi...@maprtech.com> wrote: > Overall looks good. Couple of comments: Should 'related to parsing and > planning queries' be > broader to cover not just queries but DDL statements and APIs such as JDBC ? > There's no mention of SQL anywhere... is that intentional ? > > Aman > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Let’s agree on the text of the motion before we start a vote. I propose >> the following text (see below). >> >> If you are a committer, please: >> >> 1. Review the text. >> >> 2. Remove your name from the list, if you do NOT wish to remain a >> committer after graduation. (You can email me privately if you prefer.) >> >> 3. Send nominations for an initial Vice President. (This will replace the >> placeholder, "<TBD>”, in the text below.) >> >> At Ted’s suggestion, I started a thread on the Incubator list asking a >> shepherd to review. >> >> Julian >> >> >> - - - - snip >> >> >> WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of >> the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a >> Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of >> open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related >> to parsing and planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. >> >> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), >> to be known as the "Apache Calcite Project", be and hereby is established >> pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further >> >> RESOLVED, that the Apache Calcite Project be and hereby is responsible for >> the creation and maintenance of software related to interactive analysis of >> large-scale datasets; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice >> President, Apache Calcite" be and hereby is created, the person holding >> such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the >> chair of the Apache Calcite Project, and to have primary responsibility for >> management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache >> Calcite Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed >> immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial >> members of the Apache Calcite Project: >> >> * Alan Gates <gates at apache dot org> >> * Aman Sinha <amansinha at apache dot org> >> * Ashutosh Chauhan <hashutosh at apache dot org> >> * Chris Wensel <cwensel at apache dot org> >> * James R. Taylor <jamestaylor at apache dot org> >> * Jacques Nadeau <jacques at apache dot org> >> * Jesús Camacho Rodríguez <jcamacho at apache dot org> >> * Jinfeng Ni <jni at apache dot org> >> * John Pullokkaran <jpullokk at apache dot org> >> * Julian Hyde <jhyde at apache dot org> >> * Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk at apache dot org> >> * Steven Noels <stevenn at apache dot org> >> * Ted Dunning <tdunning at apache dot org> >> * Vladimir Sitnikov <vladimirsitnikov at apache dot org> >> >> >> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that <TBD> be appointed to the >> office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, to serve in accordance with and >> subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the >> Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or >> disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further >> >> RESOLVED, that the Apache Calcite Project be and hereby is tasked with the >> migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Calcite podling; and >> be it further >> >> RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator >> Calcite podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter >> discharged. >> >> - - - - >> >>
