Call for Presentations for ApacheCon 2021 now open

2021-03-08 Thread Rich Bowen
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The ApacheCon Planners and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to 
announce that ApacheCon@Home will be held online, September 21-23, 2021. 
Once again, we’ll be featuring content from dozens of our projects, as 
well as content about our community, how Apache works, business models 
around Apache software, the legal aspects of open source, and many other 
topics.


Last year’s virtual ApacheCon@Home event was a big success, with 5,745 
registrants from more than 150 countries, spanning every time zone, with 
the virtual format delivering content to attendees who would never have 
attended an in-person ApacheCon (83% of post-event poll responders in 
2020 indicated this was their first ApacheCon ever)!


Given the great participation and excitement for last year’s event, we 
are announcing the Call for Presentations is now open to presenters from 
around the world until May 1st. Talks can be focused on the topics 
above, as well as any of our amazing projects. Submit your talks today!


https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/cfp.html

We look forward to reviewing your contribution to one of the most 
popular open source software events in the world!



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Re: Feature requests for Mesos

2021-03-08 Thread Benjamin Mahler
I think the key issues have been brought up by Benjamin and Renan.

Just to add to Benjamin's comments above, achieving those key markers of
a healthy project requires serious corporate backing such that people are
being
employed to primarily work on Mesos. It takes a lot of work to keep the
project
running along and if people are doing that on the side or as a hobby it is
going
to be unsustainable.

In the initial phase of the project, there was a team dedicated to Mesos at
Twitter,
which is how the system was productionized and core features were developed.
The second phase of the project, in which Twitter was largely absent, was
driven
by Mesosphere (now called D2iQ) along with a few people making sporadic
contributions. With the shift in D2iQs priorities away from Mesos, the
project is
now without corporate backing.

Ultimately, I think with a project like Mesos those corporate backers tend
to be
vendors rather than users, because vendors can justify the investment as a
core
part of their business whereas users cannot. The vendors in this space have
consolidated around kubernetes.

An alternative model to vendor driven development would be to have a
foundation that allows users to fund development in the project, but this
model
requires donations which seems prone to persistent underfunding. (Reading
the wikipedia sections on freebsd and openbsd funding shows examples of
these alternative models).

So I see two options related to how the project is backed:

- Vendor and user companies are employing engineers to work on Mesos
because either they have products based on Mesos, or use it heavily.

- Users / Companies / Other bodies donate to a foundation which houses the
project and drives the development using these donations / resources.

The current model of Apache + maybe some folks stepping up to help I
don't think will work.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 6:39 PM Marc  wrote:

>
> * csi slrp unmanaged driver
>   (unless it is possible to work around enabling SYS_ADMIN in
> bounding_capabilities for all tasks)
> * csi serp
>
>
> http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/csi/#limitations
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-8371
>
>