On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Pat Ferrel <[email protected]> wrote:
> The last I heard from Ted he was proposing new committers who had lots to > contribute. I did not hear from him that this would mean h20 in the roadmap > for all or Mahout. > Indeed. I was discussing what people thought about the contribution. > This then leaves the question; *What IS in the roadmap?* > OSS roadmaps are determined by contributors. Contributors can publish their plans ahead of time, of course. > I can only vote from relative technical ignorance but with some knowledge > of things like momentum, number of users and committers, and buzz in the > industry. > Well, contributions by others aren't even really subject to votes except on technical grounds. Strategic considerations are not a technical ground. > Any time I’ve had to evaluate a piece of OSS for inclusion in a project > these were some of the important things we looked at. I would then place > one user (non-committer) vote that Spark be #1 on the roadmap. As a user > it’s Spark I’ll be looking at for other problems I need to solve, at least > for now. > Spark is definitely a big deal. If contributors come forward with with code for that, then all is good.
