Marvin, thanks for commenting on the proposal! The initial committers have been working on the design for several months, and will commit the design once the project is approved, so we do not expect much friction during the design phase. With that said, we certainly do want to engage others early on, and our goal in incubating earlier is to encourage feedback and contributions when it is still easy to change the APIs and extensibility points. This is important because Drill (unlike, say, Google's Dremel) must be really flexible in order to be relevant to a broad user base, allowing multiple data sources, data formats and query languages. While many projects enter incubation with a complete implementation, others don't, and due to the nature of this project we think that in this case it is better to start earlier.
Thanks, Tomer On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Initial Source > > ============== > > There is no initial source code. All source code will be developed within > > the Apache Incubator. > > Coming in without any source code is going to pose a challenge to this > podling. > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator > > The incubator filters projects on the basis of the likeliness of > them becoming > successful meritocratic communities. The basic requirements for > incubation > are: > > * a working codebase -- over the years and after several failures, > the > foundation came to understand that without an initial working > codebase, it is generally hard to bootstrap a community. This is > because merit is not well recognized by developers without a > working > codebase. Also, the friction that is developed during the initial > design stage is likely to fragment the community. > > That last line in particular seems like something to watch out for. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
