On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:41 PM Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > on behalf of Sharding-Sphere community, I'd like to call > a VOTE to accept it into the Apache Incubator. The full > proposal is available on the wiki: > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ShardingSphereProposal > and it is also attached below for your convenience. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1, bring Sharding-Sphere into Incubator > [ ] +0, I don't care either way, > [ ] -1, do not bring Sharding-Sphere into Incubator, because...
With 7 +1 binding votes, 7 +1 non-binding votes and NO +/-0 or -1 votes, this VOTE passes. Thanks to everyone who voted! Bellow is a voting tally: Binding Craig Russell Justin Mclean Willem Jiang Matt Sicker Dave Fisher Benjamin Hindman Roman Shaposhnik Non-binding Sheng Wu Xin Wang Von Gosling Bruno Mahé Zhang Liang XIAORUI Wang Raja Sundaram Ganesan Thanks, Roman. > The vote will open at least for 72 hours. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > = Abstract = > Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database > middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and > database orchestration. It provides maximum compatibility for > applications through Sharding-JDBC (a driver to implement JDBC) or > Sharding-Proxy (a proxy to implement database protocol). > > = Proposal = > With a large number of end users, Sharding-Sphere has a fairly huge > community in China. It is also widely adopted by many > [[http://shardingsphere.io/community/en/company/|companies and > organizations]] as a solution to process their massive amounts of > data. > > We believe that bringing Sharding-Sphere into Apache Software > Foundation could advance development of a stronger and more diverse > open source community. > > Dangdang submits this proposal to donate Sharding-Sphere's source > codes and all related documentations to Apache Software Foundation. > The codes are already under Apache License Version 2.0. > > * Code base: https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere > > * Web site: http://shardingsphere.io/ > > * Documentations: http://shardingsphere.io/document/current/ > > * Community: http://shardingsphere.io/community/ > > = Background = > > Relational database hardly supports such huge amounts of data any more > which has increased rapidly in recent years, but for reason of > technique maturity, developers and DBAs still want to use it to > persist core data. > > Sharding-Sphere was open sourced on Github in 2016. At the very > beginning, Sharding-Sphere is just a JDBC driver for data sharding > (name as Sharding-JDBC) at Dangdang internal framework; now it offers > data sharding, distributed transaction and database orchestration. > Besides JDBC, proxy to implement MySQL database protocol is also > supported at present. Furthermore, our roadmap includes Proxy for > PostgreSQL protocol, Sidecar model, data repica and elastic data > scalability function as well. > > Due to the extension of project, we provide proxy model and sidecar > model in addition to JDBC model. Therefore, we rename it to > Sharding-Sphere by > [[https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere/issues/788|a > public vote]], which refers to a sharding ecosphere with > Sharding-JDBC, Sharding-Proxy and Sharding Sidecar as its three > sub-projects. > > Sharding-JDBC has won the > [[http://www.oschina.net/project/top_cn_2016|TOP 20 most popular open > source projects in China 2016]]. > > = Rationale = > > Relational database still plays a very important role on current > application system. The maturity of products and surrounding > ecosystem, the friendliness of its data query and developers' and > DBAs' mastery of it, cannot be completely replaced with other types of > database in the near future. However, current relational database > cannot support cloud native very well and it is not friendly to > distributed system. > > It is the ultimate goal of Sharding-Sphere, which manages the > databases scattering around the system, to make user use distributed > databases as simply as using a single one. > > Without extra cost, Sharding-JDBC directly connects database with Java > application to get the best performance. > > Sharding-Proxy is deployed as a stateless server and supports MySQL > protocol at present. In the paper > [[https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2016/pavlo-newsql-sigmodrec2016.pdf|What’s > Really New with NewSQL?]], three types of NewSQL are introduced, among > which Sharding-Proxy is a Transparent Sharding Middleware. > > Sharding-Sidecar can be understood as a data panel in Service Mesh. > The interaction between the application and the database provides a > mesh layer. The concept of Database Mesh is similar to Service Mesh, > and it focuses on how to connect data access applications to the > database. Database Mesh will set up a huge grid system between > applications and databases. Applications and databases need be placed > in the grid system. They are all objects managed by the meshing layer. > > = Current Status = > == Meritocracy == > Sharding-Sphere was incubated at Dangdang in 2015 and open sourced on > GitHub in 2016. In 2017, Jingdong recognized its value and determined > to sponsor this project. Sharding-Sphere has contributors and users > from many companies; we have set up the PMC Team and Committer Team. > New contributors are guided and reviewed by existed PMC members. When > they are ready, PMC will start a vote to promote him/her to become a > member of PMC or Committer Team. See the details See the details > [[http://shardingsphere.io/community/en/organization/|here]]. > Contributions are always welcomed and highly valued. > > == Community == > Now we have set development teams for Sharding-Sphere respectively in > Jingdong, Dangdang and Bestpay. Companies like Sohu and Dataman have > shown great interest in Sharding-Sphere. We hope to grow the base of > contributors by inviting all those who offer contributions through The > Apache Way. Right now, we make use of github as code hosting as well > as gitter for community communication. > > == Core Developers == > The core developers, including experienced open source developers and > team leaders, have formed a group full of diversity. > > = Known Risks = > == Orphaned products == > Three development teams from Jingdong, Dangdang and CHINA TELECOM > Bestpay will spare no pains to work on Sharding-Sphere in the future > with contributors from the growing community. Also, Sharding-Sphere is > widely adopted in China by many > [[http://shardingsphere.io/community/en/company/|companies and > organizations]]. Thus, it is very unlikely that Sharding-Sphere > becomes orphaned. > > == Inexperience with Open Source == > > The current core developers all work for companies that have developed > or contributed to many open source projects. > > * Liang Zhang, PMC. He is the lead of two open source projects, > Sharding-Sphere and Elastic-Job. Also Committer of Apache Dubbo > (Incubator). > > * Sheng Wu, PMC. He is the PPMC and committer of Apache > SkyWalking(Incubating), Apache Zipkin(Incubating) contributor, CNCF > OpenTracing member. Also contributed a lot other open source projects. > > * Hongtao Gao, PMC. He is the PPMC and committer of Apache > SkyWalking(Incubating) too. Also contribute a lot of features of > Elastic-Job. > > Therefore, we believe we have enough experience to deal with open source. > > == Homogenous Developers == > The current core developers work across a variety of organizations > including Jingdong, Dangdang and CHINA TELECOM Bestpay; some > individual developers are accepted as core developers of > Sharding-Sphere as well. Considering that Sohu and Dataman have shown > great interest in Sharding-Sphere, we plan to encourage them to > contribute and invite them as contributors to work together. > > == Reliance on Salaried Developers == > At present, three of the core developers are paid by their employer to > contribute to Sharding-Sphere project. It is estimated that the > development of Sharding-Sphere will be continued with mainly salaried > developers, and we will make efforts to attract more volunteers and > grow the community. > > == Relationships with Other Apache Products == > > An automatic prober of Sharding-Sphere is introduced into SkyWalking > to send APM data, and SkyWalking also use Sharding-Sphere to persit > tracing data. Saga provided by ServiceComb is adopted by > Sharding-Sphere as one of the distributed transaction processing > engines. Sharding-Sphere integrates Apache Zookeeper as one of the > service registration/discovery mechanisms. > > == A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand == > We acknowledge the value and reputation that the Apache brand would > bring to Sharding-Sphere. However, our primary interest is in the > excellent community provided by Apache Software Foundation, in which > all the projects could gain stability for long-term development. > > = Documentation = > A complete set of Sharding-Sphere documentations is provided on > shardingsphere.io in both English and Simplified Chinese. > > * [[http://shardingsphere.io/document/current/en/overview/|English]] > * [[http://shardingsphere.io/document/current/cn/overview/|Chinese]] > > = Initial Source = > The project consists of three distinct codebases: core, example and > document. The address of three existed git repositories are as > follows: > > * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere > * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-example > * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-doc > > = Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan = > The codes are currently under Apache License Version 2.0 and have been > verified to have no intellectual property or license issues before > being released to open source by Dangdang in 2016. Dangdang will > provide SGA and all committers will sign ICLA after Sharding-Sphere is > accepted into the Incubator. > > = External Dependencies = > > As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the > external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution. All > dependencies have Apache compatible licenses except MySQL (GPL-2.0). > > We will remove MySQL dependencies in future. MySQL JDBC driver is > adopted by Sharding-Proxy to connect MySQL now; We will use SPI to > load JDBC driver, so MySQL JDBC driver is no longer provided on > Sharding-Sphere. > > * Guava Apache-2.0 > * Guava Retrying Apache-2.0 > * commons-codec Apache-2.0 > * commons-pool Apache-2.0 > * commons-dbcp Apache-2.0 > * netty Apache-2.0 > * curator Apache-2.0 > * grpc Apache-2.0 > * protobuf BSD 3-clause > * lombok MIT > * groovy Apache-2.0 > * snakeyaml Apache-2.0 > * spring-context-support Apache-2.0 > * spring-context-test Apache-2.0 > * spring-boot-starter Apache-2.0 > * spring-boot-configuration-processor Apache-2.0 > * spring-boot-starter-test Apache-2.0 > * slf4j MIT > * logback EPL-1.0 > * junit EPL-1.0 > * hamcrest BSD 3-clause > * mockito MIT > * h2 MPL-2.0/EPL-1.0 > * mysql GPL-2.0 Will remove before first apache release, use SPI instead of > it > * postgresql BSD > * mssql-jdbc MIT > * HikariCP Apache-2.0 > * ANTLR BSD > * OpenTracing BSD > > = Required Resources = > == Git Repositories == > * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere.git > * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-example.git > * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-doc.git > > > == Issue Tracking == > > The community would like to continue using GitHub Issues. > > == Continuous Integration tool == > Travis > > == Mailing Lists == > * Sharding-Sphere-dev: for development discussions > * Sharding-Sphere-private: for PPMC discussions > * Sharding-Sphere-notifications: for users notifications, and > notifications from GitHub > > == Initial Committers == > * 张亮, Liang Zhang, zhangli...@apache.org > * 曹昊, Hao Cao, > * 吴晟, Sheng Wu, wush...@apache.org > * 高洪涛, Hongtao Gao, hanahm...@apache.org > * 张永伦, Yonglun Zhang > * 潘娟, Juan Pan > * 赵俊, Jun Zhao > * 岳令, Ling Yue > * 马晓光, Xiaoguang Ma > * 陈清阳, QingYang Chen > * 彭勇升, Yongsheng Peng, pen...@apache.org > > == Affiliations == > * JD: Liang Zhang, Yonglun Zhang, Juan Pan, Jun Zhao > * Dangdang: Hao Cao, Ling Yue > * CHINA TELECOM Bestpay: QingYang Chen > * Individuals: Sheng Wu, Hongtao Gao, Xiaoguang Ma > > = Sponsors = > == Champion == > * Roman Shaposhnik (rvs at apache dot org) > > == Mentors == > * Craig L Russell (clr at apache dot org) > * Benjamin Hindman (benh at apache dot org) > * Willem Ning Jiang (ningjiang at apache dot org) > > == Sponsoring Entity == > We are expecting the Apache Incubator could sponsor this project. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org