On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > > > The question is not to decide if C-T-R is The Apache Way over R-T-C. > The > > > question is wether a project entering incubation with a selected R-T-C > > > mode is likely to exit incubation for the simple reason it will be very > > > hard for this project to grow its community due to this choice. It's > > > like starting a 100m race with a 20kb backpack on your shoulder... > > > > > > > If you have any statistics that show this to be the case, I'd be very > > interested. RTC is the norm in basically every Apache project I've been a > > part of, many of which have thriving communities and are generally > regarded > > as successful software projects. > > Do you have any statistics on that, Todd? Would be very interesting to see, > indeed. > > I don't have incubator stats... nor do I have a good way to measure "most active" or "most successful" projects in the ASF (seems that itself could be a 'centithread'-worthy discussion). But a potential proxy could be the number of stars on github: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=user%3Aapache&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults (sort by number of stars) Of the top ten: Spark: RTC via github pull request Storm: RTC (https://storm.apache.org/documentation/BYLAWS.html see "Code Change") Cassandra: RTC (based on my skimming the commit log which has "Reviewed by" quite often) CouchDB: RTC (http://couchdb.apache.org/bylaws.html see "RTC" section) Kafka: RTC (based on "Reviewed by" showing up in recent commit logs) Thrift: CTR Mesos: RTC (based on reviewboard links in most of the recent commits) Zookeeper: RTC (based on personal experience and comments above in this thread) Cordova: CTR (based on https://github.com/apache/cordova-coho/blob/master/docs/committer-workflow.md ) Hadoop: RTC (based on personal experience) Briefly looking through the #11 through #30 projects I also see a substantial number which operate on RTC (and others for which I don't know) So, I don't think there's much evidence that RTC prevents a project from becoming successful in the eyes of the developer community. Also worth noting that several of these are relatively new TLPs (i.e. within the last ~3 years) whereas others are quite old but still active and successful. -Todd
