Hi all, I am the principal developer of Hivemall, a scalable machine learning library for Apache Hive.
https://github.com/myui/hivemall When I presented a talk at the last Hadoop Summit in San Jose [1], several audiences asked me the possibility to change the software license of Hivemall to Apache License v2 and then sustainability of the project was their major concerns. Since then, I am wondering to propose Hivemall as an Apache Incubator project. The position of Hivemall for Hive would become similar one to DataFu (an Apache Incubator project) for Apache Pig. I believe that adding machine learning functionality over Apache Hive could extend application range of Apache Hive and Hivemall could help existing Hive users in their learning-scale data analytics projects. I have got approved from my employer (AIST) to change the license of Hivemall to Apache License version 2 and the donating the code to Apache Foundation. And now, I am willing to propose Hivemall as an Apache incubator project, together with Hivemall contributors in NTT corp. I am considering that the current Hivemall codebase is bits large to be included in Hive contrib and thus it is better to be a separated incubator project. I would like to propose Hivemall to be graduated as a subproject of Apache Hive. Is the strategy possible from the Hive PMC point of view? http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#subproject-or-top-level Before formulating a proposal, I would like to hear Hive developers’ opinion (e.g., possibilities, +1/-1, and missing pieces for incubations) on incubating Hivemall. BTW, I found this JIRA issue mentioning Hivemall. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7940 Is there a possibility to cooperate with them in proposing Hivemall to Apache Incubator project? According the incubation guides, I need a mentor/champion for incubating. http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#formulating Your help toward the incubation will be much appreciated. Thanks, Makoto [1] http://www.slideshare.net/myui/hivemall-hadoop-summit-2014-san-jose -- ******************************************* Makoto YUI <m....@aist.go.jp> Information Technology Research Institute, AIST. http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.yui/ *******************************************
