It would probably be a good idea to get some outside guidance on what other projects have seen because like what Nate said, this isn't the first time.
https://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects.html https://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/ Commons has components: http://commons.apache.org/components.html Hadoop, as mentioned, has modules. Patrick On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:25 PM Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:37 AM Benedict Elliott Smith < > bened...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > I welcome the donation, and hope we are able to accept all of the > > drivers. This is really great news IMO. > > > > I do however wonder if the project may be accumulating too many > > sub-projects? I wonder if it's time to think about splitting, and > perhaps > > incubating a project for the drivers? > > > > This is a legit concern and good question, but I think this is more a > natural evolution of growing a project. There is precedent for this in > Spark, Beam, Hadoop and others who have a number of different repositories > under the general project umbrella. > > What I would like to avoid is a situation like with Apache Curator and > Apache Zookeeper. The former being a zookeeper client donation from Netflix > that came in as a top level project. From the peanut gallery, it seems like > that has been less than ideal a couple of times in the past coordinating > releases, trademarks and such with separate project management. >
