On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: See here for the incubator proposal: > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AccumuloProposal >
I'm usually dumbfounded with the amount of secrecy that typically surrounds these incubator proposals - which is weird as the goal is ultimately to open something up. I've been around ASF long enough to realize organizations often have specific goals as to when and how drop their precious jewels into the Foundation. Oh well. I for one am more disappointed that this apparently has been an on-going work for quite some time, shrouded in secrecy, by people fully aware of the fact that an equivalent - community-driven - alternative existed - however they didn't feel obliged or inclined to go the extra mile and start communicating (or collaborating!) and they now try and look for technical reasons as to whether they really had to do their own thing. It's pretty unconvincing to open something up only once it's done and you can afford to have other cooks in the kitchen. But rather than shifting the burden to our side, maybe the incubator should be rather strict in verifying there *is* a viable community for an Apache-style development model at Accumulo. I've been mentoring BEA code dumps myself into Apache, and once the company focus shifted, the lack of genuine community dev adoption became rapidly apparent. Which was shortly after that project graduated, of course. Steven. -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Scalable Smart Data Makers of Lily
