On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Mike Drob <md...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > Want to bring up a potentially uncofortable topic for some. Is it time to > retire/attic the project? > > We've seen a minimal amount of activity in the past year. The last release > had two bug fixes, and had been pending for several months before somebody > reminded me to push the artifacts to subversion from the staging directory. > > I'd love to see a renewed set of activity here, but I don't think there is > a ton of interest going on. > > HBase is still on version 3. So is Accumulo, I think. Hadoop is on 4.1, > which is a good sign, but I haven't heard much from them recently. I > definitely do no think we are at the point where a lack of releases and > activity is a sign of super advanced maturity and stability. > > Your thoughts? Thanks Mike for starting this thread. Activity over the last year is here [1]. Is there any testimony other than evangelizing presentations on how htrace has provided a benefit? HTrace needs a bit of work. In order of import: 1. A complete viewer (punt and use zipkin instead?) 2. Hooked up systems that tell wholesome trace stories: hdfs is incomplete, hbase is broke, accumulo/unknown, phoenix/custom-htrace... who else? 3. Work needs to be done so an operator can easily enable/disable trace and easily obtain views without impinging upon general perf It could do w/ an API cleanup (v5.0.0?) and study of the fact that it is painstaking manual work adding it into a system (and that it is subsequently easily damaged by code movement). It needs a particular type of barker to drive it cross-project since the cross-project realm is when it starts to come into its own (and each project in its turn will resist since the benefit not immediate), etc. None of the above is under active dev. St.Ack 1. https://github.com/apache/incubator-htrace/graphs/commit-activity > Mike >
