+1 (non-binding) On 10 Nov 2016 4:41 pm, "Bruce Snyder" <bsny...@apache.org> wrote:
> Subsequent to the discussion on RocketMQ, I would like to call a vote on > accepting RocketMQ into the Apache Incubator. > > [ ] +1 Accept RocketMQ into the Apache Incubator > [ ] +0 Abstain. > [ ] -1 Do not accept RocketMQ into the Apache Incubator because... > > The proposal is pasted below and also available in the wiki here: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RocketMQProposal > > Also, the ASF voting guidelines are available here: > http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > Thanks, > > Bruce > > > = RocketMQ Proposal = > > == Abstract == > > RocketMQ is a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to > use message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of > streaming data. > > == Proposal == > > RocketMQ provides a message model including both pub/sub and P2P and it > supports both reliable FIFO and strict sequential message queues. It also > has the ability to accumulate a billion messages in a single queue, > provides mobile, internet-friendly protocols such as MQTT and HTTP. > RocketMQ also supports the ability to load data into Apache Hadoop for > offline storage or to handle stream processing for Apache Storm. > > == Background == > > RocketMQ was developed at Alibaba in 2011 and has been used in production > there since that time. It can process the large amounts of events generated > by various systems and provides a common repository for many types of > consumers to access and process those events. RocketMQ also handles dozens > of types of events including trade order process, search, social network > activity stream and data pipeline. Every day at Alibaba, RocketMQ clusters > process more than 500 billion events. The Alibaba Group also uses RocketMQ > to provide message services for more than 3000 core applications. > > RocketMQ was developed to meet Alibaba's particular use cases to provide > low latency message delivery and high throughput message sending. Alibaba > has also created its cornerstone product derived from RocketMQ, a Platform > as a Service (PaaS) product named the Alibaba Cloud Platform ( > https://intl.aliyun.com/). More than 100 companies use the RocketMQ open > source version today. We believe RocketMQ can benefit more people so, we > would like to share it via the ASF and begin developing a community of > developers and users via The Apache Way. > > > == Rationale == > > As background description, many organizations can benefit from a low > latency, reliable, high throughput, distributed platform. Its usage is > varied and we expect many new use cases to emerge. RocketMQ provides many > features to support many use cases from enterprise application integration, > to web applications to the flourishing of IoT applications. > > == Current Status == > > === Meritocracy === > > The intent of this proposal is to start building a diverse developer and > user community around RocketMQ following the ASF meritocracy model. Since > RocketMQ was open sourced, we have solicited contributions via the website > and presentations given to user groups and technical audiences and have > received positive feedback and contributions including clients for C++ and > .NET. We plan to continue this support for new contributors and work with > those who contribute significantly to the project to encourage them to > become committers. > > === Community === > > RocketMQ is currently being developed by engineers working for Alibaba > where it is highly used in a production environment. We also have active > users in or have received contributions from a diverse set of companies > including CMBC(China Minsheng Bank), Schneider Electric( > http://www.schneider-electric.com/), the China Railway Ministry official > ticketing website, China Union, Sina, Umei (http://sh.jumei.com), Chinese > Academy of Sciences and many more. We hope to grow the base of contributors > by inviting all those who offer significant contributions and excel through > the use of The Apache Way. Contributions from outside of Alibaba are now > being received by the RocketMQ project, including a dashboard, the > flume-rocketmq module, the storm-rocketmq and more. > > To further this goal, the project currently makes use of GitHub project > features as well as a public mailing list via Google Groups. > > > === Core Developers === > > RocketMQ is currently being developed by engineers from Alibaba and > Yeahmobi: Xiaorui Wang, Von Gosling, Jiangwei Jiang, Xinyu Zhou, Zhanhui > Li. Xiaorui Wang, one of Alibaba MOM project owners is also the originator > of the RocketMQ project. He has rich experience with open source software, > as well as being active within the RocketMQ community. Von Gosling, another > MOM project owner at Alibaba and co-creator of the RocketMQ project, is an > active open source software committer and has been an active contributor to > several projects in Alibaba, Apache community and Google Code. Von also has > deep experience with performance tuning, distributed system design and > coding. Xinyu Zhou, Wei Zhou and Jinjixiang, They have rich experience in > distributed system design and performance tuning, especially in message > queue, big data, etc. Zhanhui Li, is a developer at Yeahmobi who has a > great passion for software engineering, especially in fields of distributed > system design and development. Longda, has been involved with several open > source projects released by Alibaba,especially jstorm project, which has > donated to apache. > > === Aligment === > > The ASF is the natural choice to host the RocketMQ project as its goal of > encouraging community-driven open source projects fits with our vision for > RocketMQ. The ASF is also the home to many other projects with which we are > familiar with and hope to integrate with RocketMQ including Apache Storm, > Flume and Hadoop. We believe that there will be mutual benefit by close > proximity to these and other projects. > > == Known Risks == > > === Orphaned products === > > The core developers currently work full-time on the RocketMQ project for > Alibaba. RocketMQ provides a critical internal infrastructure and has been > in production use at Alibaba since 2011, so there is no concern that it > will become an orphaned project. > > === Inexperience with Open Source === > > The core developers are all active contributors, users and followers of > open source. They are all already committers and contributors to the > RocketMQ Github project and several of them also have experience actively > contributing to open source projects. Though the core set of developers do > not have experience at the ASF, there are plans to onboard individuals to > the project who have ASF open source experience. > > === Homogenous Developers === > > The current core developers are from Alibaba and Yeahmobi but the goal is > to establish a vibrant developer community and we will actively encourage > new contributors. > > === Reliance on Salaried Developers === > > Currently, the developers are paid to work on RocketMQ for both Alibaba and > Yeahmobi. We look forward to building a strong community around the project > in order to encourage more contributors to join the project. > > === Relationships with Other Apache Products === > RocketMQ is not currently integrated with any other ASF projects except for > several Apache Commons products, such as commons-lang, commons-cli, etc. As > a messaging server, it is mainly used to traditional publish/subscribe > scenario and demandingly high volume realtime transaction system that > tolerates no message loss. It uses java primitive file api and some jni > technology to custom-build storage desgin. More details about its storage, > please see the [[ > https://github.com/alibaba/RocketMQ/wiki/how-to-support- > more-queues|RocketMQ > Storage Design]]) The table below providing some context for simple > comparison to some other Apache messaging projects at the ASF such as > ActiveMQ and Kafka (apologies for the terrible MoinMoin table formatting, > its syntax is limited. For a much better formatted table, please see the [[ > https://github.com/alibaba/RocketMQ/wiki/motivation|RocketMQ Github > page]]). > > ||'''Messaging Product'''||'''Protocol and Specification'''||'''Order > Message'''||'''Message Filter'''||'''Server Triggered > Redelivery'''||'''Persistent Messaging'''||'''Retroactive > Consumers'''||'''Message Priority'''||'''High Availability and > Failover'''||'''Message Tracking'''||'''Configuration'''||'''Management > and > Operation Tools'''|| > || ActiveMQ || Push model, supports OpenWire, Stomp, AMQP, HTTP, JMS, MQTT > || Exclusive consumer or exclusive queues will ensure ordering || Supported > || Not Supported || Supports very fast persistence using JDBC along with a > high performance journal，such as LevelDB and KahaDB || Supported || > Supported || Supported, depending on storage, if Kahadb storage a ZooKeeper > server is required, maybe trigger split brain after rebooting half of a > two-node cluster || Not Supported || The default configuration is low > level, user need to optimize the configuration ||Supported || > || Kafka || Pull model, supports TCP || Ensure ordering of messages within > a partition || Supported, you can use Kafka Streams to filter messages || > Not Supported || High performance file storage || Supported offset indicate > || Not Supported || Supported, requires a ZooKeeper server || Not Supported > || Kafka uses key-value pairs format for configuration. These values can be > supplied either from a file or programmatically. || Supported, use terminal > commands to expose core metrics || > || RocketMQ || Pull model, supports TCP, JMS || Ensure strict ordering of > messages, have no hot spot problem and can scale out gracefully || > Supported, you can even upload yourself custom-built filter code snippets > || Supported || High performance and low latency file storage || Supported > timestamp and offset 2 indicates || Not Supported || Supported,Master-Slave > model, without anther kit || Supported || All configurations are off the > shelf, user only needs to pay attention to a few configurations || > Supported, rich web and terminal command to expose core metrics || > > === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === > > While we respect the reputation of the Apache brand and have no doubt that > it will attract new contributors and users, our interest is primarily to > give RocketMQ a solid home as an open source project following an > established development model. More reason are provided in the Rationale > and Alignment sections. > > == Documentation == > > Information about RocketMQ can be found on the Github project wiki [ > https://github.com/alibaba/RocketMQ] > > == Initial Source == > > RocketMQ has been under development at Alibaba since 2011. The source code > was opened up in 2012. It is currently hosted on Github using the Apache > License ([https://github.com/alibaba/RocketMQ/blob/master/LICENSE]). > > == External Dependencies == > > RocketMQ depends on some Apache projects: > > * Commons Lang > * Commons CLI > * Commons Codec > * Maven > > and other open source projects (organized by license): > > * ALv2: > * JNA > * Netty > * FastJson > * Jackson > > * MPL > * Javassist > > * MIT > * Mockito > * SLF4J > * Bridge-method-annotation > > * EPL 1.0 > * JUnit > * Logback > > > As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the > external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution. > > == Required Resources == > > === Mailing lists === > > * rocketmq-private (PMC discussion) > * rocketmq-dev (developer discussion) > * rocketmq-user (user discussion) > * rocketmq-commits (SCM commits) > * rocketmq-issues (JIRA issue feed) > > === Subversion Directory === > > Git is the preferred source control management system: git:// > git.apache.org/rocketmq > === Issue Tracking === > > JIRA RocketMQ (RocketMQ) > > === Other Resources === > > The existing source code already has unit tests so we will make use of > existing Apache continuous testing infrastructure. The resulting load > should not be very large. > > == Initial Committers == > > * Xiaorui Wang <vintage.wang at gmail dot com> > * Von Gosling <fengjia10 at gmail dot com> > * Xinyu Zhou <zhou at xinyu dot im> > * Zhanhui Li <lizhanhui at gmail dot com> > * Wei Zhou <zhouwei198732 at gmail dot com> > * Jinjixiang <canna1989115 at gmail dot com> > * Longda <hustjackie at gmail dot com> > > > == Affiliations == > > * Xiaorui Wang: Alibaba > * Von Gosling: Alibaba > * Xinyu Zhou: Alibaba > * Zhanhui Li: Yeahmobi > * Wei Zhou: Alibaba > * Jinjixiang: Alibaba > * Longda: Alibaba > > > == Sponsors == > > === Champion === > > Bruce Snyder bsny...@apache.org > > === Nominated Mentors === > > * Justin McLean jmcl...@apache.org > * Bruce Snyder bsny...@apache.org > * Brian McCallister bri...@apache.org > * Willem Ning Jiang ningji...@apache.org > * Luke Han luke...@apache.org > > === Sponsoring Entity === > > We are requesting the Incubator to sponsor this project. > > > > -- > perl -e 'print unpack("u35", > "\@0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)S;GED97)\`87!A8VAE+F]R9PH\`");' > > ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ > Blog: http://bruceblog.org/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder >
