[RESULT] [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...

With seventeen +1 binding votes, one +1 non-binding vote
(eighteen +1 votes total) NO +/-0 or -1 votes, this VOTE PASSES.

Thanks to all who voted! Here's a tally of +1 binding votes:
  Jan Iversen
  Chris Mattmann
  Suresh Marru
  Ted Dunning
  Henry Saputra
  James Carman
  Rob Vesse
  Chris Douglas
  Konstantin Boudnik
  Jakob Homan
  Chip Childers
  P. Taylor Goetz
  Justin Erenkrantz
  Jim Jagielski
  Alan Cabrera
  Niall Pemberton
  Roman Shaposhnik
and an additional tally of +1 non-binding votes:
  Stuart Williams

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...

+1 (binding)

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-24 Thread Niall Pemberton
+1

Niall (binding)

On Monday, April 20, 2015, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:

> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
>
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
>
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
>
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
>
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active comm

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-22 Thread Alan Cabrera
+1


Regards,
Alan

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 19, 2015, at 10:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> 
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> 
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
> 
> The proposal is available at:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> 
> [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
> 
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
> 
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> 
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>  * Haptic
>  * FIG
> 
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> 
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
> 
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
> 
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> 
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> 

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-22 Thread Jim Jagielski
+1 (binding)
> On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> 
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> 
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
> 
> The proposal is available at:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> 
> [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
> 
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
> 
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> 
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>  * Haptic
>  * FIG
> 
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> 
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
> 
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
> 
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> 
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
+1.  -- justin
On Apr 20, 2015 1:47 AM, "Roman Shaposhnik"  wrote:

> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
>
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
>
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
>
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
>
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active community 

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-21 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
+1 (binding)

-Taylor


> On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> 
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> 
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
> 
> The proposal is available at:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> 
> [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
> 
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
> 
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> 
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>  * Haptic
>  * FIG
> 
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> 
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
> 
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
> 
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> 
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them int

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-21 Thread Chip Childers
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:

> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
>
>
+1 (binding)


Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Jakob Homan
+1. Binding.

On 20 April 2015 at 14:21, Pid  wrote:
> On 20/04/2015 06:46, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
>> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>>
>> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
>> as a new incubator project.
>>
>> The proposal is available at:
>> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
>> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>>
>> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>>
>>  [x] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>
> Non-binding.
>
>
> p
>
>
>>  [ ] ±0
>>  [ ] -1 because...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roman.
>>
>> == Abstract ==
>> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
>> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
>> distributed cloud architectures.
>>
>> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
>> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
>> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
>> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
>> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
>> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
>> and guaranteed message delivery.
>>
>> == Proposal ==
>> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
>> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
>> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
>> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
>> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
>> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
>> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
>> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>>
>> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
>> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>>   * Haptic
>>   * FIG
>>
>> == Background ==
>> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
>> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
>> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
>> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
>> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
>> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
>> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
>> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
>> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
>> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
>> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
>> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
>> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
>> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>>
>> == Rationale ==
>> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
>> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
>> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
>> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
>> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
>> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
>> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
>> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
>> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
>> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
>> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
>> ambitious goals.
>>
>> == Initial Goals ==
>> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
>> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
>> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
>> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
>> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
>> refactored to support open development.
>>
>> == Current Status ==
>> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
>> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
>> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
>> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
>> Project Geode organization on GitHub
>> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
>> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
>> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
>> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>>
>> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
>> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
>> documentation along wit

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Pid
On 20/04/2015 06:46, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> 
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
> 
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> 
>  [x] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator

Non-binding.


p


>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
> 
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
> 
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> 
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
> 
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> 
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
> 
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
> 
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> 
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
+1 [binding] 

Let's the Dao be with you, guys!

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:46PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> 
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
> 
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> 
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
> 
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
> 
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> 
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
> 
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> 
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
> 
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
> 
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> 
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Rob Vesse
+1 (binding)

Rob

On 19/04/2015 22:46, "Roman Shaposhnik"  wrote:

>Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
>I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
>as a new incubator project.
>
>The proposal is available at:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
>and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
>Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
> [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
>
>Thanks,
>Roman.
>
>== Abstract ==
>Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
>consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
>distributed cloud architectures.
>
>Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
>across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
>It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
>availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
>Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
>management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
>and guaranteed message delivery.
>
>== Proposal ==
>The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
>Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
>Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
>self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
>will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
>and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
>the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
>and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
>While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
>to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>  * Haptic
>  * FIG
>
>== Background ==
>GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
>legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
>Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
>same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
>even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
>leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
>exposure to the open source governance process.The original
>company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
>and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
>is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
>includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
>railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
>cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
>nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
>== Rationale ==
>Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
>data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
>enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
>scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
>continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
>pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
>same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
>this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
>self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
>codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
>data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
>ambitious goals.
>
>== Initial Goals ==
>Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
>engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
>development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
>develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
>there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
>refactored to support open development.
>
>== Current Status ==
>Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
>and is available for download from Pivotal.io
>(https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
>and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
>Project Geode organization on GitHub
>(https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
>developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
>engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
>well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>
>The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
>user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
>documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
>expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
>transform them into an active community of Geode members, stakeholders
>and developers.
>
>=== Meritocracy ===
>Our proposed li

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Douglas
+1 -C

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
>
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
>
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
>
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
>
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active community of

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread James Carman
+1

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM Henry Saputra 
wrote:

> +1 (binding)
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> > Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
> >http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> >
> > I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> > as a new incubator project.
> >
> > The proposal is available at:
> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> > and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> >
> > Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> >
> >  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> >  [ ] ±0
> >  [ ] -1 because...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roman.
> >
> > == Abstract ==
> > Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> > consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> > distributed cloud architectures.
> >
> > Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> > across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> > It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> > availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> > Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> > management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> > and guaranteed message delivery.
> >
> > == Proposal ==
> > The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> > Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> > Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> > self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> > will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> > and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> > the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> > and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> >
> > While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> > to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
> >   * Haptic
> >   * FIG
> >
> > == Background ==
> > GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> > legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> > Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> > same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> > even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> > leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> > exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> > company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> > and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> > is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> > includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> > railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> > cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> > nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> >
> > == Rationale ==
> > Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> > data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> > enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> > scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> > continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> > pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> > same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> > this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> > self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> > codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> > data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> > ambitious goals.
> >
> > == Initial Goals ==
> > Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> > engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> > development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> > develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> > there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> > refactored to support open development.
> >
> > == Current Status ==
> > Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> > and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> > (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> > and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> > Project Geode organization on GitHub
> > (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> > developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> > engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> > well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> >
> > The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building 

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Henry Saputra
+1 (binding)

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
>
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
>
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
>
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
>
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active commu

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Ted Dunning
+1


On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Suresh Marru  wrote:

> + 1 (binding)
>
> Suresh
>
> > On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> >
> > Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
> >   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> >
> > I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> > as a new incubator project.
> >
> > The proposal is available at:
> >https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> > and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> >
> > Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> >
> > [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> > [ ] ±0
> > [ ] -1 because...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roman.
> >
> > == Abstract ==
> > Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> > consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> > distributed cloud architectures.
> >
> > Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> > across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> > It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> > availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> > Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> > management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> > and guaranteed message delivery.
> >
> > == Proposal ==
> > The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> > Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> > Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> > self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> > will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> > and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> > the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> > and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> >
> > While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> > to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
> >  * Haptic
> >  * FIG
> >
> > == Background ==
> > GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> > legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> > Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> > same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> > even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> > leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> > exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> > company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> > and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> > is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> > includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> > railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> > cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> > nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> >
> > == Rationale ==
> > Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> > data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> > enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> > scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> > continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> > pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> > same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> > this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> > self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> > codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> > data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> > ambitious goals.
> >
> > == Initial Goals ==
> > Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> > engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> > development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> > develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> > there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> > refactored to support open development.
> >
> > == Current Status ==
> > Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> > and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> > (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> > and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> > Project Geode organization on GitHub
> > (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> > developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> > engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> > well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> >
> > The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on bu

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Suresh Marru
+ 1 (binding)

Suresh

> On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:
> 
> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
> 
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
> 
> The proposal is available at:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
> 
> [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
> 
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
> 
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
> 
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>  * Haptic
>  * FIG
> 
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
> 
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
> 
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
> 
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
> 
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
+1 (binding).

Cheers,
Chris

++
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Chief Architect
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov
WWW:  http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
++






-Original Message-
From: Roman Shaposhnik 
Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" 
Date: Monday, April 20, 2015 at 1:46 AM
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" 
Subject: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

>Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>   http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
>I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
>as a new incubator project.
>
>The proposal is available at:
>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
>and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
>Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
> [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
>
>Thanks,
>Roman.
>
>== Abstract ==
>Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
>consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
>distributed cloud architectures.
>
>Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
>across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
>It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
>availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
>Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
>management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
>and guaranteed message delivery.
>
>== Proposal ==
>The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
>Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
>Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
>self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
>will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
>and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
>the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
>and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
>While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
>to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>  * Haptic
>  * FIG
>
>== Background ==
>GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
>legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
>Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
>same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
>even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
>leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
>exposure to the open source governance process.The original
>company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
>and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
>is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
>includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
>railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
>cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
>nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
>== Rationale ==
>Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
>data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
>enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
>scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
>continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
>pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
>same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
>this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
>self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
>codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
>data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
>ambitious goals.
>
>== Initial Goals ==
>Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
>engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
>development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
>develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
>there, the existing internal build,

Re: [VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-20 Thread jan i
+1 (binding)

rgds
jan i

On Monday, April 20, 2015, Roman Shaposhnik  wrote:

> Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
>http://s.apache.org/Oxt
>
> I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
> as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal is available at:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
> and is also included at the bottom of this email.
>
> Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST
>
>  [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
>  [ ] ±0
>  [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> == Abstract ==
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
> consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
> distributed cloud architectures.
>
> Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
> across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
> It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
> availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
> Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
> management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
> and guaranteed message delivery.
>
> == Proposal ==
> The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
> Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
> Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
> self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
> will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
> and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
> the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
> and other materials currently available on GitHub.
>
> While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
> to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
>   * Haptic
>   * FIG
>
> == Background ==
> GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
> legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
> Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
> same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
> even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
> leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
> exposure to the open source governance process.The original
> company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
> and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
> is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
> includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
> railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
> cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
> nodes for high availability and elastic scale.
>
> == Rationale ==
> Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
> data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
> enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
> scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
> continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
> pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
> same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
> this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
> self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
> codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
> data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
> ambitious goals.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
> engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
> development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
> develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
> there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
> refactored to support open development.
>
> == Current Status ==
> Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
> and is available for download from Pivotal.io
> (https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
> and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
> Project Geode organization on GitHub
> (https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
> developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
> engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
> well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.
>
> The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
> user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
> documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
> expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
> transform them into an active

[VOTE] Accept Geode into the Apache Incubator

2015-04-19 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Following the discussion earlier in the thread:
   http://s.apache.org/Oxt

I would like to call a VOTE for accepting Geode
as a new incubator project.

The proposal is available at:
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GeodeProposal
and is also included at the bottom of this email.

Vote is open until at least Sunday, 26 April 2015, 23:59:00 PST

 [ ] +1 accept Geode in the Incubator
 [ ] ±0
 [ ] -1 because...

Thanks,
Roman.

== Abstract ==
Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time,
consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely
distributed cloud architectures.

Geode pools memory (along with CPU, network and optionally local disk)
across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior.
It uses dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques for high
availability, improved performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
Geode is both a distributed data container and an in-memory data
management system providing reliable asynchronous event notifications
and guaranteed message delivery.

== Proposal ==
The goal of this proposal is to bring the core of Pivotal Software,
Inc.’s (Pivotal) Pivotal GemFireⓇ codebase into the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) in order to build a vibrant, diverse and
self-governed open source community around the technology. Pivotal
will continue to market and sell Pivotal GemFire based on Geode. Geode
and Pivotal GemFire will be managed separately. This proposal covers
the Geode source code (mainly written in Java), Geode documentation
and other materials currently available on GitHub.

While Geode is our primary choice for a name of the project, in order
to facilitate PODLINGNAMESEARCH we have come up with two alternatives:
  * Haptic
  * FIG

== Background ==
GemFire is an extremely mature and robust product that can trace its
legacy all the way back to one of the first Object Databases for
Smalltalk: GemStone. The GemFire code base has been maintained by the
same group of engineers as a closed source project. Because of that,
even though the engineers behind GemFire are the de-facto knowledge
leaders for distributed in-memory management, they have had little
exposure to the open source governance process.The original
company developing GemStone and GemFire was acquired by VMWare in 2010
and later spun off as part of Pivotal Software in 2013. Today GemFire
is used by over 600 enterprise customers. An example deployment
includes China National Railways that uses Pivotal GemFire to run
railway ticketing for the entire country of China with a 10 node
cluster that manages 2 gigabytes "hot data" in memory, and 10 backup
nodes for high availability and elastic scale.

== Rationale ==
Modern-day data management architectures require a robust in-memory
data grid solution to handle a variety of use cases, ranging from
enterprise-wide caching to real-time transactional applications at
scale. In addition, as memory size and network bandwidth growth
continues to outpace those of disk, the importance of managing large
pools of RAM at scale increases. It is essential to innovate at the
same pace and Pivotal strongly believes that in the Big Data space,
this can be optimally achieved through a vibrant, diverse,
self-governed community collectively innovating around a single
codebase while at the same time cross-pollinating with various other
data management communities. ASF is the ideal place to meet these
ambitious goals.

== Initial Goals ==
Our initial goals are to bring Geode into the ASF, transition internal
engineering processes into the open, and foster a collaborative
development model according to the "Apache Way." Pivotal plans to
develop new functionality in an open, community-driven way. To get
there, the existing internal build, test and release processes will be
refactored to support open development.

== Current Status ==
Currently, the project code base is licensed for evaluation purposes
and is available for download from Pivotal.io
(https://network.pivotal.io/products/project-geode). The documentation
and wiki pages are available as public GitHub repositories under
Project Geode organization on GitHub
(https://github.com/project-geode). Although Pivotal GemFire was
developed as a proprietary, closed-source product, the internal
engineering practices adopted by the development team lend themselves
well to an open, collaborative and meritocratic environment.

The Pivotal GemFire team has always focused on building a robust end
user community of paying and non-paying customers. The existing
documentation along with StackOverflow and other similar forums are
expected to facilitate conversions between our existing users so as to
transform them into an active community of Geode members, stakeholders
and developers.

=== Meritocracy ===
Our proposed list of initial committers include the current GemFire
R&D team, Pivotal Field Engineers, and several existing customers and
partners. This group will form a base for the broa