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-Sebastien

On 13 Sep 2013, at 00:04, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Discussion about the Storm proposal has subsided, issues raised now
>> seemingly resolved.
>> 
>> I'd like to call a vote to accept Storm as a new Incubator podling.
>> 
>> The proposal is included below and is also at:
>> 
>>  https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StormProposal
>> 
>> Let's keep the vote open for four working days, until 18 September.
>> 
>> [ ] +1 Accept Storm into the Incubator
>> [ ] +0 Don't care.
>> [ ] -1 Don't accept Storm because...
>> 
>> Doug
>> 
>> 
>> = Storm Proposal =
>> 
>> == Abstract ==
>> 
>> Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
>> computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing
>> of data.
>> 
>> == Proposal ==
>> 
>> Storm is a distributed real-time computation system. Similar to how
>> Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch
>> processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing
>> real-time computation. Its use cases span stream processing,
>> distributed RPC, continuous computation, and more. Storm has become a
>> preferred technology for near-realtime big-data processing by many
>> organizations worldwide (see a partial list at
>> https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By). As an open
>> source project, Storm’s developer community has grown rapidly to 46
>> members.
>> 
>> == Background ==
>> 
>> The past decade has seen a revolution in data processing. MapReduce,
>> Hadoop, and related technologies have made it possible to store and
>> process data at scales previously unthinkable. Unfortunately, these
>> data processing technologies are not realtime systems, nor are they
>> meant to be. The lack of a "Hadoop of realtime" has become the biggest
>> hole in the data processing ecosystem. Storm fills that hole.
>> 
>> Storm was initially developed and deployed at BackType in 2011. After
>> 7 months of development BackType was acquired by Twitter in July 2011.
>> Storm was open sourced in September 2011.
>> 
>> Storm has been under continuous development on its Github repository
>> since being open-sourced. It has undergone four major releases (0.5,
>> 0.6, 0.7, 0.8) and many minor ones.
>> 
>> 
>> == Rationale ==
>> 
>> Storm is a general platform for low-latency big-data processing. It is
>> complementary to the existing Apache projects, such as Hadoop. Many
>> applications are actually exploring using both Hadoop and Storm for
>> big-data processing. Bringing Storm into Apache is very beneficial to
>> both Apache community and Storm community.
>> 
>> The rapid growth of Storm community is empowered by open source. We
>> believe the Apache foundation is a great fit as the long-term home for
>> Storm, as it provides an established process for community-driven
>> development and decision making by consensus. This is exactly the
>> model we want for future Storm development.
>> 
>> == Initial Goals ==
>> 
>>   * Move the existing codebase to Apache
>>   * Integrate with the Apache development process
>>   * Ensure all dependencies are compliant with Apache License version 2.0
>>   * Incremental development and releases per Apache guidelines
>> 
>> == Current Status ==
>> 
>> Storm has undergone four major releases (0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8) and many
>> minor ones. Storm 0.9 is about to be released. Storm is being used in
>> production by over 50 organizations. Storm codebase is currently
>> hosted at github.com, which will seed the Apache git repository.
>> 
>> === Meritocracy ===
>> 
>> We plan to invest in supporting a meritocracy. We will discuss the
>> requirements in an open forum. Several companies have already
>> expressed interest in this project, and we intend to invite additional
>> developers to participate. We will encourage and monitor community
>> participation so that privileges can be extended to those that
>> contribute.
>> 
>> === Community ===
>> 
>> The need for a low-latency big-data processing platform in the open
>> source is tremendous. Storm is currently being used by at least 50
>> organizations worldwide (see
>> https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By), and is the most
>> starred Java project on Github. By bringing Storm into Apache, we
>> believe that the community will grow even bigger.
>> 
>> === Core Developers ===
>> 
>> Storm was started by Nathan Marz at BackType, and now has developers
>> from Yahoo!, Microsoft, Alibaba, Infochimps, and many other companies.
>> 
>> === Alignment ===
>> 
>> In the big-data processing ecosystem, Storm is a very popular
>> low-latency platform, while Hadoop is the primary platform for batch
>> processing. We believe that it will help the further growth of
>> big-data community by having Hadoop and Storm aligned within Apache
>> foundation. The alignment is also beneficial to other Apache
>> communities (such as Zookeeper, Thrift, Mesos). We could include
>> additional sub-projects, Storm-on-YARN and Storm-on-Mesos, in the near
>> future.
>> 
>> == Known Risks ==
>> 
>> === Orphaned Products ===
>> 
>> The risk of the Storm project being abandoned is minimal. There are at
>> least 50 organizations (Twitter, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Groupon, Baidu,
>> Alibaba, Alipay, Taobao, PARC, RocketFuel etc) are highly incentivized
>> to continue development. Many of these organizations have built
>> critical business applications upon Storm, and have devoted
>> significant internal infrastructure investment in Storm.
>> 
>> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
>> 
>> Storm has existed as a healthy open source project for several years.
>> During that time, we have curated an open-source community
>> successfully, attracting over 40 developers from a diverse group of
>> companies including Twitter, Yahoo!, and Alibaba.
>> 
>> === Homogenous Developers ===
>> 
>> The initial committers are employed by large companies (including
>> Twitter, Yahoo!, Alibaba, Microsoft) and well-funded startups. Storm
>> has an active community of developers, and we are committed to
>> recruiting additional committers based on their contributions to the
>> project.
>> 
>> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
>> 
>> It is expected that Storm development will occur on both salaried time
>> and on volunteer time, after hours. The majority of initial committers
>> are paid by their employer to contribute to this project. However,
>> they are all passionate about the project, and we are confident that
>> the project will continue even if no salaried developers contribute to
>> the project. We are committed to recruiting additional committers
>> including non-salaried developers.
>> 
>> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
>> 
>> As mentioned in the Alignment section, Storm is closely integrated with 
>> Hadoop,
>> Zookeeper, Thrift, YARN and Mesos in a numerous ways. We look forward
>> to collaborating with those communities, as well as other Apache
>> communities (including Apache S4 which focuses on stateful low-latency
>> processing).
>> 
>> === An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
>> 
>> Storm is already a healthy and well known open source project. This
>> proposal is not for the purpose of generating publicity. Rather, the
>> primary benefits to joining Apache are those outlined in the Rationale
>> section.
>> 
>> == Documentation ==
>> 
>> The reader will find these websites highly relevant:
>>   * Storm website: http://storm-project.net
>>   * Storm documentation: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki
>>   * Codebase: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm
>>   * User group: https://groups.google.com/group/storm-user
>> 
>> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
>> 
>> The Storm codebase is currently hosted on Github:
>> https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm.
>> This is the exact codebase that we would migrate to the Apache foundation.
>> 
>> The Storm source code is currently licensed under Eclipse Public
>> License Version 1.0. Some source code was contributed under a
>> contributor agreement based on the Sun contributor agreement (v1.5).
>> More recent code has been contributed under an Apache style agreement
>> (see 
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133901206/storm-apache-style-cla.txt).
>> 
>> Upon entering Apache, Storm will migrate to an Apache License 2.0 with
>> all contributions licensed to the Apache Foundation. In certain cases
>> where individuals or organizations hold copyright, we will ensure they
>> grant a license to the Apache Foundation. Going forward, all commits
>> will be licensed directly to the Apache foundation through our signed
>> Individual Contributor License Agreements for all committers on the
>> project.
>> 
>> storm-kafka, which lets one use Kafka as a source for Storm, will also
>> be submitted under the contrib folder for the Apache Storm project.
>> 
>> Yahoo! is also willing to move Storm-on-YARN code from github to be a
>> subproject of Apache Storm project. Storm-on-YARN is currently
>> licensed under Apache License 2.0 and receive contribution under
>> Apache style CLA. Upon entering Apache, Yahoo! will sign over
>> copyright to Apache foundation.
>> 
>> == External Dependencies ==
>> 
>> To the best of our knowledge, all of Storm dependencies (except
>> 0MQ/JMQ) are distributed under Apache compatible licenses. Upon
>> acceptance to the incubator, we would begin a thorough analysis of all
>> transitive dependencies to verify this fact and introduce license
>> checking into the build and release process (for instance integrating
>> Apache Rat).
>> 
>> Storm has used 0MQ and JMQ as the default mechanism for internal
>> messaging layer, and 0MQ/JMQ is licensed under GNU Lesser General
>> Public License. Recently, we have made Storm messaging layer
>> pluggable, and plan to use Netty (which is licensed under Apache
>> License v2) as our default messaging plugin (while keep 0MQ as an
>> optional plugin).
>> 
>> == Cryptography ==
>> 
>> We do not expect Storm to be a controlled export item due to the use
>> of encryption.
>> Storm enable encryptions via 2 plugins:
>>   * SASL authentication plugins … Currently, we have provide “no-op”
>> authentication and digest authentication. In near future, we will
>> introduce Kerberos authentication.
>>   * Tuple payload serialization plugins … Storm provides plugins for
>> plain-object serialization and blowfish encryption.
>> 
>> == Required Resources ==
>> 
>> === Mailing lists ===
>> 
>> * storm-user
>> * storm-dev
>> * storm-commits
>> * storm-private (with moderated subscriptions)
>> 
>> === Subversion Directory ===
>> 
>> Git is the preferred source control system: git://git.apache.org/storm
>> 
>> 
>> === Issue Tracking ===
>> 
>> JIRA Storm (STORM)
>> 
>> == Initial Committers ==
>> 
>>   * Nathan Marz <nathan at nathanmarz dot com>
>>   * James Xu <xumingmingv at gmail dot com>
>>   * Jason Jackson <jason at cvk dot ca>
>>   * Andy Feng <afeng at yahoo-inc dot com>
>>   * Flip Kromer  <flip at infochimps dot com>
>>   * David Lao <davidlao at microsoft dot com>
>>   * P. Taylor Goetz <ptgoetz at gmail dot com>
>> 
>> == Affiliations ==
>> 
>>   * Nathan Marz - Nathan’s Startup
>>   * James Xu - Alibaba
>>   * Jason Jackson - Twitter
>>   * Andy Feng - Yahoo!
>>   * Flip Kromer - Infochimps
>>   * David Lao - Microsoft
>>   * P. Taylor Goetz - Health Market Science
>> 
>> == Sponsors ==
>> 
>> 
>> === Champion ===
>> 
>>   * Doug Cutting  <cutting at apache dot org>
>> 
>> === Nominated Mentors ===
>> 
>>  * Ted Dunning <tdunning at maprtech dot com>
>>  * Arvind Prabhakar <arvind at apache dot org>
>>  * Devaraj Das <ddas at hortonworks dot com>
>>  * Matt Franklin <m.ben.franklin at gmail dot com>
>>  * Benjamin Hindman <benjamin.hindman at gmail dot com>
>> 
>> === Sponsoring Entity ===
>> 
>> The Apache Incubator
>> 
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