+1, looks great. Thanks for drafting this, Gour! On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Gour Saha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jon, > Thank you for the +1. > > Billie, > Thank you for your comments. I think they make sense. Here is a second > draft, hopefully addressing your feedback. Let me know if I missed > anything and/or if it needs further changes. > > =============== > > Slider > > 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. Apache Slider community/PPMC have voted to move portions of Slider into > Apache Hadoop YARN as modules. It is possible that the remaining pieces > will be moved at a later point in time or become obsolete or evolve to > work closely with YARN. Slider PPMC will decide what makes most sense as > we progress through this exciting time. > 2. Getting more external users > 3. Growth of a diverse set of developers/committers/PMC members is also > crucial towards the final state of Slider > > > 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? > > The Apache Hadoop YARN community/PMC and Apache Slider community/PPMC has > decided to move portions of Slider into YARN, to make fast and significant > progress on: YARN-4692 - [Umbrella] Simplified and first-class support for > services in YARN. As a result, portions like Slider Core, Application > Master, Client and Tests will roll into Apache Hadoop YARN as module(s). > This effort is being captured in: YARN-5079 : Native YARN framework layer > for services. At this point a branch has been created in the Hadoop > codebase, and Slider has been selectively migrated. As a result of this, > we are already seeing interest in the Hadoop committers/PMC, who have > started to contribute and submit patches to Slider. > > In order to support existing users of Slider, and provide seamless > migration, there will be sufficient overlap between the time when a stable > state of long running services support is available in some future version > of YARN and the time till an independent Slider release is available. The > community/PPMC will also determine the future state of Slider as we > navigate through these changes. > > The discussions on the Slider and YARN community DLs can be viewed here - > > https://s.apache.org/0hoh > https://s.apache.org/MncV > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > We released version 0.91.0-incubating in June, 2016 with significant work > done on token management, unique component support, SLIDER-906 (Support > for Docker based application packaging with first class YARN support) and > several bug fixes. Work continues on support for complex services > (assemblies) and agent-less applications in Slider. The efforts on the > Core will continue in the new services branch created in YARN. > > > Date of last release: > > 2016-06-28 slider-0.91.0-incubating > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu > > > =============== > > > > > -Gour > > On 8/3/16, 8:33 AM, "Billie Rinaldi" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I think it would be more accurate to say that we voted to move portions of > >Slider into YARN, and that as we move into this model the Slider PPMC will > >determine what makes sense to happen with the remaining pieces of Slider. > >It seems like it's possible the remaining pieces of Slider will become > >obsolete, and it's also possible Slider could evolve to continue to > >provide > >additional functionality on top of what is being done in YARN. > > > >Another thing to be aware of is the concept of graduating to a subproject: > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#subproject-or-top-level > >. > >What we are proposing sounds kind of like this, except that we are only > >moving a piece of Slider. (Saying we "have unanimously voted to move > >Apache > >Slider into Apache Hadoop YARN. Hence, Apache Slider will not move to TLP" > >sounds even more like graduating to a subproject.) The Incubator may want > >a > >say in this matter, in the form of holding a vote approving the transfer. > >Since we plan for the Slider PPMC to continue for the time being, this > >might not be necessary, but I thought I should bring it up so we are > >prepared for the possibility. > > > >On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Gour Saha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Here is a first draft. Please review by tomorrow, as the deadline for > >>the > >> report is tomorrow. > >> > >> =============== > >> > >> Slider > >> > >> 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. Apache Slider community/PMC members and the Apache Hadoop YARN > >> community/PMC members have unanimously voted to move Apache Slider into > >> Apache Hadoop YARN. Hence, Apache Slider will not move to TLP. > >> 2. > >> 3. > >> > >> 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? > >> > >> The Apache Hadoop YARN community/PMC and Apache Slider community/PMC has > >> decided to merge Slider into YARN, to make fast and significant progress > >> on: YARN-4692 - [Umbrella] Simplified and first-class support for > >>services > >> in YARN. As a result, Apache Slider assets like codebase, documentation, > >> etc. will roll into Apache Hadoop YARN. This effort is being captured > >>in: > >> YARN-5079 : Native YARN framework layer for services. At this point a > >> branch has been created in the Hadoop codebase, and Slider codebase has > >> been selectively migrated. In order to support existing users of Slider, > >> and provide seamless migration, there will be sufficient overlap between > >> the time when a stable state of long running services support is > >>available > >> in some future version of YARN and the time till an independent Slider > >> release is available. > >> > >> The discussions on the Slider and YARN community DLs can be viewed here > >>- > >> > >> https://s.apache.org/0hoh > >> https://s.apache.org/MncV > >> > >> > >> How has the project developed since the last report? > >> > >> Work continues on support for complex services (assemblies) and > >>agent-less > >> applications in Slider. These efforts will continue in the new services > >> branch created in YARN. > >> > >> Date of last release: > >> > >> 2016-06-29 slider-0.91.0-incubating > >> > >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > >> > >> 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu > >> > >> > >> =============== > >> > >> > >> -Gour > >> > >
