+1 binding. On 2 March 2016 at 10:55, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > +1 (binding) > > > Regards, > Alan > >> On Mar 1, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> The discussion of the Gearpump proposal has concluded. Please vote to >> accept Gearpump into the Apache Incubator. I will leave this vote open for >> at least the next 72 hours and will aim to close it Monday the 7th of >> March, 2016 at midnight PT. Gearpump is a flexible, efficient, and scalable >> micro-service based real-time big data streaming engine. The text of the >> proposal is included below and is also available at >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GearpumpProposal >> >> [ ] +1 Accept Gearpump as an Apache Incubator podling. >> [ ] +0 Abstain. >> [ ] -1 Don’t accept Gearpump as an Apache Incubator podling because ... >> >> Note that while votes from Incubator PMC members are binding, all are most >> definitely welcome to vote! >> >> I am +1 (binding). >> >> Best regards, >> >> - Andy >> >> ----- >> >> = Gearpump Proposal = >> >> === Abstract === >> Gearpump is a flexible, efficient and scalable micro-service based >> real-time big data streaming engine developed by Intel Corporation which >> has been licensed by Intel under the Apache License 2.0. >> >> === Proposal === >> Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine; completely based on the >> micro-service Actor model. Gearpump provides extremely high performance >> stream processing while maintaining millisecond latency message delivery. >> It enables reusable, composable flows or partial graphs that can be >> remotely deployed and executed in a diverse set of environments, including >> IoT edge devices. These flows may be deployed and modified at runtime -- a >> capability few real time streaming frameworks provide today. >> >> The goal of this proposal is to incubate Gearpump as an Apache project in >> order to build a diverse, healthy, and self-governed open source community >> around this project. >> >> === Background === >> In past decade, there have been many advances within real-time streaming >> frameworks. Despite many advances, users of streaming frameworks often >> complain about flexibility, efficiency, and scalability. Gearpump endeavors >> to solve these challenges by adopting the micro-service Actor model. The >> Actor model was proposed by Carl Hewitt in 1973. In the Actor model, each >> actor is a message driven micro-service; actors are the basic building >> blocks of concurrent computation. By leveraging Actor Model’s location >> transparency feature,Gearpump allows a graph to be composed of several >> partial graphs, where, for example, some parts may be deployed to remote >> IoT edge devices, and other parts to a data center. This division and >> deployment model can be changed at runtime to adapt to a changing physical >> environment, providing extreme flexibility and elasticity in solving >> various ingestion and analytics problems. We’ve found Actors to be a much >> smaller computation unit compared with threads, where smaller usually means >> better concurrency, and potentially better CPU utilization. >> >> === Rationale === >> Gearpump tightly integrates and enhances the big data community of Apache >> projects. Intel believes Gearpump can bring benefits to the Apache >> community in a number of ways: >> >> 1. Gearpump complements many existing Apache projects, in particular, those >> commonly found within the big data space. Users of this project are also >> users of other Apache projects, such as Hadoop ecosystem projects. It is >> beneficial to align these projects under the ASF umbrella. In real-time >> streaming, Gearpump offers some special features that are useful for Apache >> users, such as exactly-once processing with millisecond message level >> latency and dynamic DAGs that allow online topology modifications. >> >> 2. Gearpump tightly integrates with Apache big data projects. It supports >> for Apache HDFS, YARN, Kafka, and HBase. It uses Apache YARN for resource >> scheduling and Apache HDFS as the essential distributed storage system. >> >> 3. The micro-service model of reusable flows that Gearpump has adopted is >> very unique, and it may become common in the future.Gearpump sets a good >> example about how distributed software can be implemented within a >> micro-service model. An open project is of best interest to our users. By >> joining Apache, it will be a neutral infrastructure platform that will >> benefit everyone. >> >> 4. The process and development philosophy of Apache will help Gearpump grow, >> and build a diverse, healthy, and self-governed open source community. >> >> === Initial Goals === >> 1. Migrate the existing codebase to Apache. >> >> 2. Setup Jira, website and other development tools by following Apache best >> practices. >> >> 3. Start the first release per Apache guidelines as soon as possible. >> >> === Current Status === >> Gearpump is hosted on Github. It has 1922 commits, 38284 line of code, and >> 31 major or minor releases, with release notes highlighting the changes for >> every release. It is licensed under Apache License Version 2. There is a >> documentation site at http://gearpump.io >> >> including a user guide, internal details, use cases and a roadmap. There is >> also an issue tracker where every code commit is tracked by a bug Id. Every >> pull request is reviewed by several reviewers and will only be merged based >> on consensus rule. These match Apache’s development ideals. >> >> ==== Meritocracy ==== >> We think an open, fair, and renewing community culture is what we need and >> what our users require, that will protect everyone in the community. We >> would like the project to be free from potential undue influence from any >> single organization. We will invest in supporting a meritocratic model. >> >> ==== Community ==== >> Gearpump has a growing community with hundreds of stars on Github and an >> active WeChat group with hundreds of subscriptions. We organize regular >> offline meetup events. These efforts should help us to grow the community >> at Apache. >> >> ==== Core Developers ==== >> Most of the initial committers are Intel employees from China, the US, and >> Poland. We are committed to build a diverse community which involves more >> companies and individuals. >> >> === Alignment === >> Gearpump has good alignment with other Apache projects. Gearpump is tightly >> integrated with Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It uses Apache YARN for resource >> scheduling and Apache HDFS for storage. The unique streaming processing >> abilities Gearpump complements other Apache big data projects today. We >> believe there will be a synergistic effect by aligning Gearpump under the >> Apache umbrella. >> >> === Known Risks === >> >> ==== Orphaned products ==== >> Intel has a long-term interest in big data and open source and a proven >> record of contributing to Apache projects. The risk of theGearpump project >> being abandoned is very small. Besides, Intel is seeing an increasing >> interest in Gearpump from different organizations. We are committed to get >> more support, adoption, and code contribution from different companies. >> >> ==== Inexperience with Open Source ==== >> Gearpump is an existing project under the Apache License, Version 2.0 with >> a long history record of open development. Initial committers of this >> project have years of open sourcing contribution experiences, including >> code contribution to HDFS, HBase, Storm, YARN, Sqoop, and etc. Some of the >> initial committers are also committers to other Apache projects. >> >> ==== Homogeneous Developers ==== >> The current list of committers includes developers from different >> geographies and time zones; they are able to collaborate effectively in a >> geographically dispersed environment. We are committed to recruit more >> committers from different companies to get a more diverse mixture. >> >> ==== Reliance on Salaried Developers ==== >> Most of our current Gearpump developers are Intel employees who are >> contributing to this project. Our developers are passionate about this >> project and spend a lot of their own personal time on the project. We are >> confident that their interests will remain strong. We are committed to >> recruiting additional committers from the community as well. >> >> ==== Relationships with Other Apache Product ==== >> Gearpump codebase is closely integrated with Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, >> and Apache Kafka. Gearpump also has some similarities with Apache Storm. >> Although Gearpump and Storm are both systems for real-time stream >> processing, they have fundamentally different architectures. In particular, >> Gearpump adopts the micro-service model, building on the Akka framework, >> for concurrency, isolation and error handling, which we believe is a future >> trend for building distributed software. We look forward to collaboration >> with other Apache communities. >> >> ==== An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ==== >> The ASF has a strong brand; we appreciate that fact and will protect the >> brand. Gearpump is an existing open source project with many committers and >> years of effort. The reasons to join Apache are outlined in the Rationale >> section above. >> >> === Documentation === >> Information on Gearpump can be found at: >> Gearpump website: http://gearpump.io >> Codebase: https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump >> >> === Initial Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan === >> The Gearpump codebase is currently hosted on Github: https://github.com/ >> gearpump/gearpump. We will use this codebase to migrate to the Apache >> foundation. The Gearpump source code is licensed under Apache License >> Version 2.0 and will be kept that way. All contributions on the project >> will be licensed directly to the Apache foundation through signed >> Individual Contributor License Agreements or Corporate Contributor License >> Agreements. >> >> === External Dependencies === >> All of Gearpump dependencies are distributed under Apache compatible >> licenses. >> >> Gearpump leverages Akka which has Apache 2.0 licensing for current and >> planned versions >> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.12/project/licenses.html#Licenses_for_Dependency_Libraries >> >> === Cryptography === >> Gearpump does not include or utilize cryptographic code. >> >> === Required Resources === >> We request that following resources be created for the project to use >> >> ==== Mailing lists ==== >> >> gearpump-priv...@incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions) >> gearpump-dev >> gearpump-user >> gearpump-commits >> >> ==== Git repository ==== >> Git is the preferred source control system: git://git.apache.org/gearpump >> >> ==== Documentation ==== >> https://gearpump.incubator.apache.org/docs/ >> >> ==== JIRA instance ==== >> JIRA Gearpump (GEARPUMP) >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/gearpump >> >> === Initial Committers === >> * Xiang Zhong <xiang dot zhong at intel dot com> >> >> * Tianlun Zhang <tianlun dot zhang at intel dot com> >> >> * Qian Xu <qian dot a dot xu at intel dot com> >> >> * Huafeng Wang <huafeng dot wang at intel dot com> >> >> * Kam Kasravi <kam dot d dot kasravi at intel dot com> >> >> * Weihua Jiang <weihua dot jiang at intel dot com> >> >> * Tomasz Targonski <tomasz dot targonski at intel dot com> >> >> * Karol Brejna <karol dot brejna at intel dot com> >> >> * Gang Wang <gang1 dot wang at intel dot com> >> >> * Mark Chmarny <mark dot chmarny at intel dot com> >> >> * Xinglang Wang <xingwang at ebay dot com > >> >> * Lan Wang <lan dot wanglan at huawei dot com> >> >> * Jianzhong Chen <jianzhong dot chen at cloudera dot com> >> >> * Xuefu Zhang <xuefu at apache dot org> >> >> * Rui Li <rui dot li at intel dot com> >> >> === Affiliations === >> * Xiang Zhong – Intel >> >> * Tianlun Zhang – Intel >> >> * Qian Xu – Intel >> >> * Huafeng Wang – Intel >> >> * Kam Kasravi – Intel >> >> * Weihua Jiang – Intel >> >> * Tomasz Targonski – Intel >> >> * Karol Brejna – Intel >> >> * Mark Chmarny – Intel >> >> * Gang Wang – Intel >> >> * Mark Chmarny – Intel >> >> * Xinglang Wang – Ebay >> >> * Lan Wang – Huawei >> >> * Jianzhong Chen – Cloudera >> >> * Xuefu Zhang – Cloudera >> >> * Rui Li – Intel >> >> === Sponsors === >> >> ==== Champion ==== >> Andrew Purtell <apurtell at apache dot org> >> >> ==== Nominated Mentors ==== >> * Andrew Purtell <apurtell at apache dot org> >> >> * Jarek Jarcec Cecho <Jarcec at cloudera dot com> >> >> * Todd Lipcon <todd at cloudera dot com> >> >> * Xuefu Zhang <xuefu at apache dot org> >> >> * Reynold Xin <rxin at databricks dot com> >> >> ==== Sponsoring Entity ==== >> Apache Incubator PMC >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
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