Well, I guess the time it took me to actually reply to this thread
echoes overall
point that Olaf is trying to make. A few comments inline:
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Olaf Flebbe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we had a BoF room at FOSDEM: Ganesh and Marcin from Linaro and Myself, Roman
> attending shortly.
>
> My main motivation for this BoF was my impression that Bigtop is slowing down
> to a stop.
I think it is a fair observation that the project is entering its slow
phase and some
kind of "new blood" (be it community members or initiatives) would be
very welcome
at this point.
> Most of our active devs (including me) are out of the Big Data business and
> resources to get new things done are severely missing.
> I am now active for over an year to pick up eventually some review work, if a
> new dev would come up: But that did not worked out that well.
Same here. My day job at this point has very little to do with
bigdata. It may actually
change in a few years as my startup grows, but for next 12-18 month --
I can only
cheer from the sidelines so to speak.
> Since Big Data business is consolidating and Hadoop support is mainstream, I
> kindly asking the downstream consumers of Apache Bigtop:
> Please put developer resources on it: Not to fix obsolete Bigtop releases,
> but to pick up innovations. Not only to provide code, but to do reviews as
> well.
On that note -- it would be interesting to find out what ODPi thinks about this.
I know Cos was talking to them at some point. Cos, any comments on this?
Thanks,
Roman.