On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Benjamin Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > i wanted to start a discussion about making hedwig and bookkeeper a > subproject. (actually pat started the discussion last month in general > about all of the contrib projects.) there are three questions, in my > mind, that we need to answer to move forward: > > 1) should it be a hedwig/bookkeeper subproject, or should there be two > separate projects? we need to build a developer community and i'm > wondering if we should try to build a single dev community or two. the > relationship is a bit asymmetrical: hedwig depends on bookkeeper, but > not visa-versa. i'm inclined to say we do a hedwig subproject and > include bookkeeper with it, but i don't feel strongly. >
IMO both hedwig and bk should eventually be separate, distinct projects on their own. This will allow communities to form around them that are focused on their goals. Additionally it would allow us to focus on building the zk community. An analogy could be made to hadoop/hbase, or hadoop/pig&hive, or felix/karaf (or hadoop/zk), etc... > 2) should we propose a subproject to zookeeper or to incubator? i'm a > bit more inclined to propose a zookeeper subproject simply because it > fits well with the zookeeper community, but it does introduce a bit > more overhead to the zookeeper PMC. > Pretty much everything that would be required in the incubator would be done as a sub. As you mention, as a sub we (zk community) would be on the hook to mentor them. The incubator has more experienced oversight than we could bring to bear, they also have many more hands than we do. Granted, in each of the examples I gave earlier the projects did start as subs... > 3) do we have the developer interest to make it happen in the first > place? i know we can get at least 3 initial committers from yahoo!, > but projects should be represented by multiple companies. (the goal is > at least 3.) so, is there interest in working on the project from > others? > That's one of the things the incubator is for though, to build the initial community. > please comment. these are all open issues, so opinions are what i'm > looking for. if there isn't much discussion, i think that will > implicitly answer 3 :) > :-) Patrick
