Josh, This is a great draft. Only one suggestion on the below sentence - "We are still waiting to hear back from the YARN community as to whether or not they would be interested in such an "adoption".
- Although YARN-4692 talks greatly about Slider, an adoption-discussion email has not been initiated in the YARN community. So we should remove this sentence. -Gour On 4/28/16, 10:33 AM, "Josh Elser" <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >Ok, folks. Here's an official draft. Let me know what you think, and >I'll post later today/tmrw. > ><snip> >Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and >manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. > >Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. > >Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Getting more external users > 2. Getting more diverse set of developers > 3. Getting more diverse set of committers/PMC > >Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >aware of? > > No. > > >How has the community developed since the last report? > > We continue to see regular interaction with users who are trying out >Apache Slider (incubating). Questions range from introductory "I'm >trying to do $x" to bug reports "I did $a and encountered an issue $b". >The committers try their best to keep people involved and steer them >toward contributions. The strong majority of contributions continue to >come from existing podling members. > >How has the project developed since the last report? > > The IP clearance for the Apache Kafka Slider "app-package" process >was addressed (after discussion on general@i.a.o) and this codebase was >merged in. This was a great contribution by a few external developers >and very much appreciated. > > Work continues on "phase 2" of some long-term work to include support >for running Docker containers in Slider. The intent behind this work is >that we will make it easier for (prospective) users to build >applications that can run on Slider. There is a tentative patch on >SLIDER-906 and some related documentation updates. > > We have agreed upon a next release (0.91) happening in May, but have >not made any significant progress towards that release yet. > > We had a discussion put forth about the future of Slider by a podling >member. At the inception of Slider, Apache Hadoop's YARN was not ready >to support long-lived services "natively". While Slider has been in >incubation, YARN has continued to grow towards treating these services >natively, partly as a result of requirements necessary of Slider to >work. As such, we discussed whether it would make sense to ask the YARN >project if they would be interesting in combining efforts, moving the >core of Slider into YARN itself. The Slider community reacted >positively, noting that YARN is likely a better long-term home for the >core of Slider; however, there were a few points raised that would need >to be addressed before any action was actually taken. We are still >waiting to hear back from the YARN community as to whether or not they >would be interested in such an "adoption". The mail discussion can be >found at https://s.apache.org/3ywX > >Date of last release: > > 2016-01-09 slider-0.90.2-incubating > >When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu ></snip> > >- Josh >
