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 <o...@oflebbe.de> 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.
