+1 Thanks & Regards, Ravindra Pesala
________________________________________ From: Manoj Babu [manoj...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:02 PM To: Matei Zaharia Cc: Sean Owen; dev Subject: Re: [VOTE] Designating maintainers for some Spark components +1 Cheers! Manoj. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Several people asked about having maintainers review the PR queue for > their modules regularly, and I like that idea. We have a new tool now to > help with that in https://spark-prs.appspot.com. > > In terms of the set of open PRs itself, it is large but note that there > are also 2800 *closed* PRs, which means we close the majority of PRs (and I > don't know the exact stats but I'd guess that 90% of those are accepted and > merged). I think one problem is that with GitHub, people often develop > something as a PR and have a lot of discussion on there (including whether > we even want the feature). I recently updated our "how to contribute" page > to encourage opening a JIRA and having discussions on the dev list first, > but I do think we need to be faster with closing ones that we don't have a > plan to merge. Note that Hadoop, Hive, HBase, etc also have about 300 > issues each in the "patch available" state, so this is some kind of > universal constant :P. > > Matei > > > > On Nov 5, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > Naturally, this sounds great. FWIW my only but significant worry about > > Spark is scaling up to meet unprecedented demand in the form of > > questions and contribution. Clarifying responsibility and ownership > > helps more than it hurts by adding process. > > > > This is related but different topic, but, I wonder out loud what this > > can do to help clear the backlog -- ~*1200* open JIRAs and ~300 open > > PRs, most of which have de facto already fallen between some cracks. > > This harms the usefulness of these tools and processes. > > > > I'd love to see this translate into triage / closing of most of it by > > maintainers, and new actions and strategies for increasing > > 'throughput' in review and/or helping people make better contributions > > in the first place. > > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I wanted to share a discussion we've been having on the PMC list, as > well as call for an official vote on it on a public list. Basically, as the > Spark project scales up, we need to define a model to make sure there is > still great oversight of key components (in particular internal > architecture and public APIs), and to this end I've proposed implementing a > maintainer model for some of these components, similar to other large > projects. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org