For what it's worth, I have no concerns with Fluo's graduation based on the conversation here.
John On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 7:02 PM Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 7/5/17 1:51 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > Hi Josh, > > > > I have some questions: > > > >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> As a mentor, I consciously avoided an explicit "+1" until we got some > IPMC discussion. Let me expand: > >> > >> The current members of Fluo are great, get the Apache Way, and are > self-sufficient. I have no concerns over them operating as a TLP -- I think > they are ready. However, they have only added a single committer and I see > none in the pipeline -- Fluo is defined by the current committers. > > > > (1) Seems to be a niche project as you state below which is just within > the range of 5 contributors. Am I wrong? > > Yup, that sounds about right. I'm notice three of them being the most > active, but I tend to not watch that closely. > > >> My hesitation is balancing the Incubators goal of "pushing podlings to > graduate" and ensuring adequate diversity in the podling. This is > especially difficult for Fluo as they're "niche on niche" (it's a difficult > dist-sys problem/software, and not many people use the tech they're > building on top of given my view of the world). > >> > >> I realize that this discussion could easily spiral out of control, > turning into some meta-discussion about Incubator goals. I want to avoid > that. > >> > >> I'm looking for some feelings from other IPMC folks about how to > approach the Fluo podling given their specific circumstances. If other > people are also hesitant, I would also be interested in suggestions about > what we would concretely change (because I don't know what to suggest that > "fix" the diversity issue for them that isn't changing the core of their > project). If people aren't worried, I'm happy to give an explicit +1. > > > > (2) Has any consideration been given to becoming a project within > Accumulo? Or are the goals of Fluo distinct from and not wholly dependent > on Accumulo? > > > > (3) Corollary - it seems a large number of Fluo Initial Committers were > also Accumulo PMC. (I not intentionally rehashing any prior conversation.) > > > > Will leave Christopher's response to (thoroughly) answer this ;) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
