Just want to provide a quick update that we have submitted the "Spark Extras" proposal for review by the Apache board (see link below with the contents).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zRFGG4414LhbKlGbYncZ13nyX34Rw4sfWhZRA5YBtIE/edit?usp=sharing Note that we are in the quest for a project name that does not have "Spark" as part of it, and we will provide an update here when we find a suitable name. Suggestions are welcome (please send them directly to my inbox to avoid flooding the mailing list). Thanks On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@apache.org> wrote: > >> First, really thank you for leading the discussion. >> >> I am concerned that it'd hurt Spark more than it helps. As many others >> have pointed out, this unnecessarily creates a new tier of connectors or >> 3rd party libraries appearing to be endorsed by the Spark PMC or the ASF. >> We can alleviate this concern by not having "Spark" in the name, and the >> project proposal and documentation should label clearly that this is not >> affiliated with Spark. >> > > I really thought we could use the Spark name (e.g. similar to > spark-packages) as this project is really aligned and dedicated to curating > extensions to Apache Spark and that's why we were inviting Spark PMC > members to join the new project PMC so that Apache Spark has the necessary > oversight and influence on the project direction. I understand folks have > concerns with the name, and thus we will start looking into name > alternatives unless there is any way I could address the community concerns > around this. > > >> >> Also Luciano - assuming you are interested in creating a project like >> this and find a home for the connectors that were removed, I find it >> surprising that few of the initially proposed PMC members have actually >> contributed much to the connectors, and people that have contributed a lot >> were left out. I am sure that is just an oversight. >> >> > Reynold, thanks for your concern, we are not leaving anyone out, we took > the following criteria to identify initial PMC/Committers list as described > on the first e-mail on this thread: > > - Spark Committers and Apache Members can request to participate as PMC > members > - All active spark committers (committed on the last one year) will > have write access to the project (committer access) > - Other committers can request to become committers. > - Non committers would be added based on meritocracy after the start of > the project. > > Based on this criteria, all people that have expressed interest in joining > the project PMC has been added to it, but I don't feel comfortable adding > names to it at my will. And I have updated the list of committers and > currently we have the following on the draft proposal: > > > Initial PMC > > > - > > Luciano Resende (lresende AT apache DOT org) (Apache Member) > - > > Chris Mattmann (mattmann AT apache DOT org) (Apache Member, Apache > board member) > - > > Steve Loughran (stevel AT apache DOT org) (Apache Member) > - > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré (jbonofre AT apache DOT org) (Apache Member) > - > > Marcelo Masiero Vanzin (vanzin AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark > committer) > - > > Sean R. Owen (srowen AT apache DOT org) (Apache Member and Spark PMC) > - > > Mridul Muralidharan (mridulm80 AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark PMC) > > > Initial Committers (write access to active Spark committers that have > committed in the last one year) > > > - > > Andy Konwinski (andrew AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Andrew Or (andrewor14 AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Ankur Dave (ankurdave AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Davies Liu (davies AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > DB Tsai (dbtsai AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Haoyuan Li (haoyuan AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Ram Sriharsha (harsha AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Herman van Hövell (hvanhovell AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Imran Rashid (irashid AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Joseph Kurata Bradley (jkbradley AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Josh Rosen (joshrosen AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Kay Ousterhout (kayousterhout AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Cheng Lian (lian AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Mark Hamstra (markhamstra AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Michael Armbrust (marmbrus AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Matei Alexandru Zaharia (matei AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Xiangrui Meng (meng AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Prashant Sharma (prashant AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Patrick Wendell (pwendell AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Reynold Xin (rxin AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Sanford Ryza (sandy AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Kousuke Saruta (sarutak AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Shivaram Venkataraman (shivaram AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Tathagata Das (tdas AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Thomas Graves (tgraves AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Wenchen Fan (wenchen AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - > > Yin Huai (yhuai AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > - Shixiong Zhu (zsxwing AT apache DOT org) (Apache Spark) > > > > BTW, It would be really good to have you on the PMC as well, and any > others that volunteer based on the criteria above. May I add you as PMC to > the new project proposal ? > > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/