On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve, thanks for the write up. > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> > wrote: > > If you want a separate project, eg. SPARK-EXTRAS, then it *generally* > needs to go through incubation. While normally its the incubator PMC which > sponsors/oversees the incubating project, it doesn't have to be the case: > the spark project can do it. > > > > Also Apache Arrow managed to make it straight to toplevel without that > process. Given that the spark extras are already ASF source files, you > could try the same thing, add all the existing committers, then look for > volunteers to keep things. > > Am I to understand from your reply that it's not possible for a single > project to have multiple repos? > > It can have multiple repos, but this still brings the overhead into the PMC to maintain it which was brought on previously on this thread and it might not be the direction the PMC want to take (but I might be mistaken). Another approach is to make this extras, just a subproject, with it's own set of committers etc.... which gives less burden on the Spark PMC. Anyway, my main issue here is not who and how it's going to be managed, but that it continues under Apache governance. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
