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2017-12-04 13:36 GMT+01:00 Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>: > +1 > > > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:17 AM, mck <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> >> After some discussion on the SkyWalking proposal, I'd like to raise the >> vote on accepting SkyWalking into into the Apache Incubator. >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4e7205e77fe382b4cd096fb6da28b >> 70053e0722b3dd7ae8ac389f8a@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E >> >> >> A vote for accepting a new Apache Incubator podling is a majority vote >> for which only Incubator PMC member votes are binding. >> Votes from other people are also welcome as an indication of peoples >> enthusiasm (or lack thereof). >> >> Please do not use this VOTE thread for discussions. If needed, start a >> new thread instead. >> >> This vote will run for at least 72 hours. >> Please VOTE as follows: >> [] +1 Accept SkyWalking >> [] +0 Abstain >> [] -1 Do not accept Skywalking, because ... >> >> >> The proposal below is also on the wiki: >> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SkyWalkingProposal >> >> >> = Abstract = >> Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for >> microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems. >> Also known as a distributed tracing system. It provides an automatic way >> to instrument applications: no need to change any of the source code of >> the target application; and an collector with an very high efficiency >> streaming module. >> >> = Proposal = >> The goal of this proposal is to bring the existing >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking|Skywalking]] codebase and >> existing developers and community into the Apache Software Foundation >> (ASF) in order to build a global, diverse and self-governed open source >> community in APM field. >> >> This project started in Open Source on GitHub about more than 2 years >> ago. Beginning with a small SDK and collector. So far the >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization|OpenSkywalking]] >> governs the project through the PMC and Committer Team. >> >> OpenSkywalking is submitting this proposal to donate the Skywalking >> sources code and associated artifacts (documentation, web site content, >> wiki, etc.) to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator under the Apache >> License, Version 2.0. These artifacts are currently available on GitHub >> at https://github.com/OpenSkywalking and include: >> * Skywalking: The java sniffer(agent) for collecting data, and >> collector for analysing and persistence. >> * Skywalking-UI: The web UI for skywalking APM >> >> ''Voted on submitting the proposal to the Incubator. >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/issues/11|Check >> here]]'' >> >> = Background = >> Mircro-service, Cloud Native and container-based architecture system are >> becoming more and more popular, so the traditional monitoring, like >> application loggings, can provide less information because of the >> distributed isolates the relations. Based on the >> [[https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html|Google Dapper paper]], >> many tracing systems born. The OpenSkywalking organisation was created >> with Skywalking made based on tracing, but not just tracing, it adds >> additional value by reducing the sniffer (agent) cost, analysis and >> visualization. >> >> In 2015, Skywalking project started, when service-oriented architecture >> became popular. At first, skywalking provided a very simple SDK, and >> collected data into a HBASE cluster. After we opened on the GitHub, the >> community gives the feedbacks about how difficult to maintain a HBase >> cluster, even harder than the applications under monitored. So, in 2.x >> 2016, skywalking provided a self-designed storage, and update the SDK to >> a javaagent with supporting auto-instrumentation. Then since 2017, more >> and more contributors joined, we set up the PMC team and committer team. >> Skywalking evolved to an APM, and more and more features provided since >> then. >> >> = Rationale = >> Skywalking includes these primary parts: >> 1. Provide an anto-instrument sniffer, which is based on Javaagent and >> collects events and traces happened inside JVM, with little CPU/Memory >> cost. >> 1. An extendable `tracing data protocol suit` with gRPC and HTTP >> implementations, is compatible for other language agent or SDK. >> 1. Provide Collector, which accepts the `tracing data protocol suit`, >> and does the analysis and aggregation inside for detecting the >> relationships among applications and services, generating the metrics, >> and altering. >> 1. Provided our own UI, which visualizes the topological graph of >> related applications and services, trace stack, metrics and alerting. >> >> Also, Skywalking team is passionate about community cooperations. >> Skywalking is a supported tracer and member of >> [[OpenTracing|http://opentracing.io]]. Also we take part in the >> [[https://github.com/TraceContext/tracecontext-spec|TraceContext >> Specs]], which is about `tracing context propagation format`. The >> founder of the project, Sheng Wu, is the member of these organizations, >> >> There is a strong need for an open, easy-to-use APM towards helping >> today's DevOps people to monitor their running systems, while also being >> easy and transparent to maintain and modify. >> The Skywalking has been an hot open source project in GitHub. We feel >> that by moving to Apache it will help us work in a more global and open >> way, presenting the project as a commercial friendly but vendor neutral >> technology. Under Apache's strong governance and existing processes, >> hope is also to make the Skywalking releases more reliable, as is >> crucial for monitoring systems running in any Application Zone. >> >> = Initial Goals = >> Our initial goals are to bring Skywalking into the ASF. The most >> important things are following ASF's governance module, and integrating >> with Apache development process. Also moving the existing codebase to an >> Apache git repository. >> >> = Current Status = >> == Meritocracy == >> Skywalking was originally created by [[https://github.com/wu-sheng|Sheng >> Wu, 吴晟]] himself in May 2015, and opened in GitHub in Nov. 8th, 2015. >> The project now has committers and users from many companies. The newer >> committers of the project are guided by the existed PMC and Committer >> Team members, by reviewing and discussing with them. When they are >> ready, PMC will start a vote to promote him/her to become a member of >> PMC and Committer Team. >> Also after the founder, Sheng Wu, joined Huawei in 2017, Huawei DevCloud >> decided to contribute and support the project. So he personally leads >> the interested developers, and helps them to join the community quickly >> and efficiently. Now we have set `Huawei Devcloud Contributor Team` for >> them. >> Contributions are always welcomed, highly valued. A lot of energy is >> allocated to ensure help to all wishing to contribute. >> >> == Community == >> OpenSkwaylking is supported by 5 companies: Huawei, shurenyun.com, >> dangdang.com, tydic, nutz.cn , which are both contributing to the >> project and also used it in product, also provide many important >> feedbacks from their actual scenarios. >> The contributors, who can provide employer information, are from >> '''Huawei DevCloud Team''', '''Tydic''', '''Oneapm''' (APM vendor), >> '''Alibaba Cainiao''', '''dangdang.com''', '''cloudwise''' (APM vendor), >> '''jd.com''', '''cig.cn''', '''hecom.cn''', and >> '''www.suixingpay.com'''. >> >> == Core Developers == >> The core developers are a diverse group of experienced open source >> developers and team leaders. >> * >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/ >> blob/master/README.md#project-management-committee-pmc|PMC >> members]] >> * >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/blob/master/README.md# >> committer-team|Committer >> Team members]] >> >> == Known Risks == >> The project is well known in global tracing and APM field, and live more >> than 2 years. We are not sure there exists a risk, but definitely have a >> challenge for us. So far, the contributors, committers and confirmed >> product use cases are all from China. >> === Language and Culture === >> Concerns have been raised about language challenges and, as is typical >> for developers not strong in english, aware that the community can be >> shy in a debate or disagreement when english is used. Having looked >> through the project's history this concern can be seen to be minor. The >> commitlog is in english, and so are the tickets and the pull requests. >> The website and documentation is equally both english and chinese. The >> community has been strict upon itself to ensure it became and stays so. >> The use of chinese should not be seen as a problem, it is a multilingual >> world, but it is important that english speakers feel included and able >> to contribute freely to the project without having to ask for >> translations. To deal with poor or broken english it's important that a >> gentler and inclusive community is fostered. >> >> >> === Orphaned products === >> The contributors and community cooperation brings the project from a >> small concept into a real APM system. So far, many companies, e.g. >> Huawei DevCloud, dangdang.com, tydic, jd.com, have their own >> independency contribute team for Skywalking. So this is not risk of any >> signs of orphaned or abandoned code. >> >> === Inexperience with Open Source === >> The founder of the project, Sheng Wu, is an open source lover. He has >> contributed for these open source projects: OpenTracing-Specification, >> OpenTracing-Java, Motan, Hprose, OpenTracing specification-zh, and >> apache/incubator-rocketmq. >> >> Hongtao Gao, our committer team member, is the major maintainer of >> [[https://github.com/shardingjdbc/sharding-jdbc|sharding-jdbc]] and >> [[https://github.com/elasticjob/elastic-job|elastic-job]] since 2014. >> >> The project are following these two experienced open source people's >> guidance. And glad to learn from the Apache Way. >> >> === Homogenous Developers === >> The confirmed contributors list: >> https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/blob/master/README.md# >> contributors. >> As mentioned above in the [[#community|Community]] section. >> >> === Reliance on Salaried Developers === >> First of all, most members of the PMC and Committer Team, are paid by >> their employers (Huawei, Tydic, dangdang.com and OneAPM) to contribute >> to this project. But we have to say, many of them have more than one >> employer in the past 3 years contribution, but the contributions are >> never stopped. We don't just depend on salaried contributors only. >> Skywalking itself and the distributed tracing field are very attractive >> and important for every company the contributors work in, and they have >> no reason to stop them. Contributions and new committers are expected. >> >> === Relationships with Other Apache Products === >> HBase was used as a backend before being rewritten, and that ZooKeeper, >> httpcomponents, log4j and junit are used. Also we are considering all >> java projects, especially big data technology, e.g. Hadoop, Hbase, >> Cassandra. >> >> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === >> The ASF has a strong brand, and that brand is in itself attractive. >> Skywalking will benefit from world wide collaboration and use cases. The >> Apache brand will be duly respected and honored in regards to marketing >> and publicity. Further more, with the help of Incubator PMC, we will >> make every effort to follow the rules and policies of the ASF. >> >> == Documentation == >> * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking/tree/master/docs >> * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking/wiki >> >> == Initial Source == >> The project consists of two distinct codebases: the server and the UI. >> These have existed as separate git repositories. >> >> * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking >> * https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/skywalking-ui >> >> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan == >> The project is under Apache Licensed 2.0 already. As soon as Skywalking >> is approved to join Apache, we can transfer of source code to the Apache >> Foundation. There is no legal issue. >> All source artifacts (code and documentation) will be assigned copyright >> to the ASF. Currently all artifacts are copyright to 'OpenSkywalking >> Organization', so effort in this process pertains mostly to obtaining >> the individual and corporation contributor agreements (ICLAs and CCLAs) >> from all the existing PMC and committers. It is also understood that the >> SGA will be signed so to hand over the copyright to ASF. This has been >> made clear with the whole SkyWalking community >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/issues/14|here]]. >> >> == External Dependencies == >> * Byte-buddy (Apache 2.0) >> * gRPC (Apache 2.0) >> * netty (Apache 2.0) >> * guava (Apache 2.0) >> * elasticsearch (Apache 2.0) >> * H2 Driver (MPL 2.0 or EPL 1.0) >> * Zookeeper Client (Apache 2.0) >> * disruptor (Apache 2.0) >> * junit (MPL) >> * mockito (MIT) >> * powermock (Apache 2.0) >> * Spring (Apache 2.0) >> * gson (Apache 2.0) >> * httpcomponents (Apache 2.0) >> * log4j (Apache 2.0) >> * vis (Apache 2.0) >> * webjars-boostrap (Apache 2.0) >> * animate.css (MIT) >> * jquery (js.foundation) >> * jquery-ui (js.foundation) >> * jsView (MIT) >> * metisMenu (MIT) >> * d3 (BSD-3) >> * echarts (BSD-3) >> * DataTables (MIT) >> * requirejs (MIT) >> * vue (MIT) >> >> = Required Resources = >> == Mailing Lists == >> * priv...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org (moderated subscriptions) >> * comm...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org >> * d...@skywalking.incubator.apache.org >> >> == Git Repositories == >> * https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking.git (gitbox) >> * https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking-ui.git (gitbox) >> >> == Issue Tracking == >> The community would like to continue using GitHub Issues. >> This appears now possible with ASF projects. >> >> == Continuous Integration tool == >> * Jenkins >> >> = Initial Committers = >> * Sheng Wu, 吴晟, wushe...@huawei.com >> * Yongsheng Peng, 彭勇升, pen...@tydic.com >> * Xin Zhang, 张鑫, zhang...@oneapm.com >> * Hongtao Gao, 高洪涛, gaohong...@dangdang.com >> * Yang Bai, 柏杨, jixian...@cainiao.com >> * Kai Wang, 王凯, wangki...@dangdang.com >> * Yuntao Li, 李运涛, liyun...@huawei.com >> * Sheng Wang, 汪盛, marco.w...@huawei.com >> * Dongxue Si, 司冬雪, ilucky...@cloudwise.com >> * Kewei Zhang, 张科伟, zhang...@suixingpay.com >> >> == Affiliations == >> * Huawei: Sheng Wu, Yuntao Li, Sheng Wang >> * Tydic: Yongsheng Peng >> * OneAPM: Xin Zhang >> * dangdang.com: Hongtao Gao, Kai Wang >> * Alibaba Cainiao: Yang Bai >> * Cloudwise: Dongxue Si >> * suixingpay.com: Kewei Zhang >> >> = Champion = >> * Michael Semb Wever, m...@apache.org >> >> ''Voted for skywalking Incubator champion. >> [[https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Organization/issues/12|Check >> here]]'' >> >> = Mentors = >> * Michael Semb Wever, m...@apache.org >> * Luke Han, luke...@apache.org >> * Willem Ning Jiang, ningji...@apache.org >> >> Skywalking received a lot helps from Michael Semb Wever about this >> proposal and Apache way. Set face-to-face meeting with three Apache >> members: Luke Han, Nicolas Hedhman, Willem Ning Jiang. They helps us a >> lot. >> >> = Sponsoring Entity = >> We are requesting the Apache Incubator to sponsor this project. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
