Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-30 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >b) are you just re-inventing the ICLA? > > In my mind, the ICLA represents your formal pledge to be part of an ASF > community and continue to contribute. It has to be recorded by the > secretary and reads like legal-ese I am trying for a h

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-30 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Nov 27, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > In these cases, we are not creating a new PMC around these code bases, we > are placing it under control of an existing PMC. Which, in effect, creates a new PMC around those code bases :) > Plus, there is > effectively no com

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-30 Thread Alex Harui
OK, next draft below. Some comments first: On 11/29/15, 6:25 AM, "Ted Dunning" wrote: >Alex, > >Here are a couple of comments, mostly kind of independent: > >a) this is a good start. Very sound directionally. > >b) are you just re-inventing the ICLA? In my mind, the ICLA represents your formal

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-29 Thread Ted Dunning
Alex, Here are a couple of comments, mostly kind of independent: a) this is a good start. Very sound directionally. b) are you just re-inventing the ICLA? c) is there a need to mention disbanding the original community? Could that be framed more positively as "We would love to have you come be

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-29 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/28/15, 6:58 PM, "Marvin Humphrey" wrote: >On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> On 11/27/15, 7:34 AM, "Marvin Humphrey" wrote: >> >>>Having a TLP take over a codebase *without* the explicit consent of all >contributors isn't a common case, and there are both legal and

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-28 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > On 11/27/15, 7:34 AM, "Marvin Humphrey" wrote: > >>On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Alex Harui wrote: >>> Since you are VP-Legal, I a willing to abide by your answer. If the >>> answer is a flat "No", then fine, we can continue working with

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-28 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Harbs wrote: > Both Swiz and AS3Commons were originally hosted on Google Code and Apache > License was clearly stated there[1][2]. So I don’t think there’s any > question about the license. Like you said, it’s not likely anyone that > contributed even if they don’

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-28 Thread Harbs
Both Swiz and AS3Commons were originally hosted on Google Code and Apache License was clearly stated there[1][2]. So I don’t think there’s any question about the license. Like you said, it’s not likely anyone that contributed even if they don’t understand licenses (not very likely) will care. I

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-28 Thread Harbs
The code was originally on Google Code and has 26 people listed there.[1] [1]https://code.google.com/p/as3-commons/people/list On Nov 28, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: >> 2) AS3Commons > > Which has two contributors and no closed pull requests. One of the > contributors has already b

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-28 Thread Ted Dunning
Alex The question is whether the claim that the code is actually under ASL is correct. If the contributors didn't understand that the ASL was to be applied or have some grotesque misunderstanding about what copyright means or what granting an irrevocable license means, it is good to flush it o

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/27/15, 10:50 PM, "Ted Dunning" wrote: > >Explain that you represent an apache project which would like to >incorporate the project in question. Ask if they are cool with their >contribution being licensed as ASL. The code is already under AL. I think we want them to give permission to m

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Ted Dunning
Explain that you represent an apache project which would like to incorporate the project in question. Ask if they are cool with their contribution being licensed as ASL. A simple email confirmation should be fine. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2015, at 12:40, Alex Harui wrote: > > Str

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Ted Dunning
Pierre, I don't understand your comment. Could you help clarify it? A) was this sarcasm? If so, please indicate what you are being sarcastic about and I will respond however you like. If this was just intended as snarky, no need to clarify B) do you think that there is a real issue here? C)

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Strange, my GH view showed 12. That includes pull requests. > And what do we ask? To sign an SGA or something else? a) If they are OK to have the code donated to Apache b) have they signed an ICLA for the project and if not would they be willing to sign an Apache one. > And how many

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Ted Dunning
The key question is whether the code winds up in an apache repo. If it is downloaded during build, no problem. If you download it and check it in as source then we need to cross t's and dot i's a bit. The term bundling is not terribly precise. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2015, at 2:28

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/27/15, 3:36 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> 1) Swiz Framework. > >There have been 6 contributors (not looking at pull requests), 5 of which >have ben active in github this year. Would it be so hard to ask them? Strange, my GH view showed 12. And what do we ask? To sign an SGA or s

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > 1) Swiz Framework. There have been 6 contributors (not looking at pull requests), 5 of which have ben active in github this year. Would it be so hard to ask them? > 2) AS3Commons Which has two contributors and no closed pull requests. One of the contributors has already been asked, woul

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread jonathon
Alex wrote: >sounds like PMCs are not empowrd to make a judgement call gere. >Here are two cases: Can anybody do the grunt work/due diligence in obtaining permission/authorization/whatever for ASF clearence, or is that function limted to current/former members of the community the cde originate

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/27/15, 7:34 AM, "Marvin Humphrey" wrote: >On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Alex Harui wrote: >> Since you are VP-Legal, I a willing to abide by your >> answer. If the answer is a flat "No", then fine, we can continue >>working >> with it as 3rd party, but if the answer is "Yes, but unde

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Pierre Smits
I guess, that is the difference between 'The Apache Way' and anyother way Best regards, Pierre Smits *OFBiz Extensions Marketplace* http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > > Since you are

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > Since you are VP-Legal, I a willing to abide by your > answer. If the answer is a flat "No", then fine, we can continue working > with it as 3rd party, but if the answer is "Yes, but understand the risks" > as Ted said, then the PMC is empowere

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Jim, In these cases, we are not creating a new PMC around these code bases, we are placing it under control of an existing PMC. Plus, there is effectively no community left. Nobody has made a change to these projects in 4 years. A major contributor from each project has indicated their desi

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
As with many other things, there is a difference between what we CAN do and what we SHOULD do. We CAN take whatever permissively licensed codebase we want, basically, and create an Apache PMC around it. All we would be doing is what we allow others to do w/ our projects. As long as we abide by the

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Harbs
I think the chances of anyone making so much as a squeak in those projects is close to zero. Being that’s the case, my takeaway is that it’s ok to take them. Harbs On Nov 27, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> On 11/26/15, 4:47 PM,

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-27 Thread Ted Dunning
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > On 11/26/15, 4:47 PM, "Ted Dunning" wrote: > > >There are two issues, one is the SGA and the other is the contributor > >license agreements (ICLA) that are desirable to make sure that all of the > >contributors understood that they were contri

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-26 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/26/15, 4:47 PM, "Ted Dunning" wrote: >There are two issues, one is the SGA and the other is the contributor >license agreements (ICLA) that are desirable to make sure that all of the >contributors understood that they were contributing under ASL. OK, so I think you are saying that we can

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-26 Thread Ted Dunning
There are two issues, one is the SGA and the other is the contributor license agreements (ICLA) that are desirable to make sure that all of the contributors understood that they were contributing under ASL. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Owen O'Malley wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:00 A

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-25 Thread John D. Ament
If we use groovy as an example, a single contributor provided an SGA and signed it himself. no other contributors signed the SGA. On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:01 PM Alex Harui wrote: > Renaming thread since my question doesn't have anything to do with Kudu. > > I'm trying to resolve Greg's "opt-ou

Re: Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-25 Thread Owen O'Malley
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > I'm trying to resolve Greg's "opt-out" response, vs Roy's "blessing of the > original authors" in the link to the archives Owen posted. I've always > assumed that the "blessing..." part meant that any non-ASF code base, even > ones under AL,

Adopting non-ASF AL projects (was Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal)

2015-11-25 Thread Alex Harui
Renaming thread since my question doesn't have anything to do with Kudu. I'm trying to resolve Greg's "opt-out" response, vs Roy's "blessing of the original authors" in the link to the archives Owen posted. I've always assumed that the "blessing..." part meant that any non-ASF code base, even one

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-25 Thread Ted Dunning
Since the contributors were employed at Cloudera, they probably signed an invention assignment. That means Cloudera can sign an SGA. On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > On 11/23/15, 8:23 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)"

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-24 Thread Owen O'Malley
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > On 11/23/15, 8:23 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" > > wrote: > > > > >Alex, > > > > > >Please re-read my email. As I stated we don’t take code that > > >authors don’t want us to have. S

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-24 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > On 11/23/15, 8:23 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" > wrote: > > >Alex, > > > >Please re-read my email. As I stated we don’t take code that > >authors don’t want us to have. So far, we haven’t heard from any of > >the authors on the incoming Kud

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-24 Thread Niall Pemberton
epartment > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++ > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Alex Harui > Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Date: Monday, November 23, 2015 at 8:14 AM > To: "general@incubator.apache.org&

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-24 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
> -Original Message- > From: Alex Harui > Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Date: Monday, November 23, 2015 at 10:46 AM > To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal > > > > > > >O

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Mattmann
- From: Alex Harui Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Monday, November 23, 2015 at 10:46 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal > > >On 11/23/15, 8:23 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" > wrote: >

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/23/15, 8:23 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" wrote: >Alex, > >Please re-read my email. As I stated we don’t take code that >authors don’t want us to have. So far, we haven’t heard from any of >the authors on the incoming Kudu project that that’s the case. If >it’s not the case, we go by th

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-23 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
++ -Original Message- From: Alex Harui Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Monday, November 23, 2015 at 8:14 AM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal > > >On 11/22/15, 12:51 PM, "

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/22/15, 12:51 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" wrote: >If they have code contributions part of >this >code base, that they don’t want included, they can state that. It was my >understanding this code base was Apache License, version 2, beforehand, >thus >we have the ability to include and

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-22 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > Basing the "diversity" on affiliaiton (or any other arbitrary property) is > quite bogus - I am with you and Roy on this. All I want to make sure that > people who contributed code and, perhaps, became inactive for a period of > time

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-22 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
Hi Cos, -Original Message- From: Konstantin Boudnik Reply-To: Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM To: Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal >On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 08:19PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Todd has answered this qu

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-22 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
+ > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Konstantin Boudnik > Reply-To: > Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 12:14 PM > To: > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal > > >My point exactly, thanks Henry! > > > >On Tue, No

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-22 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (3980)
: Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal >My point exactly, thanks Henry! > >On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:51PM, Henry Saputra wrote: >> Hi Todd, >> >> One concern, other IPMCs could help correct me if I am wrong, for >> project that already open source

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-22 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
My point exactly, thanks Henry! On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:51PM, Henry Saputra wrote: > Hi Todd, > > One concern, other IPMCs could help correct me if I am wrong, for > project that already open source and accepting contributions from > individuals which not part of initial committers is that it

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-18 Thread Jake Farrell
merit is merit, why would the barrier for new committers be different here than in any other project? If the ramp up and time to learn the projects source is the barrier then it is on us to help make it easier through documentation, clear project roadmap and entry level consumable tickets to help t

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Henry Saputra wrote: > Hi Todd, > > One concern, other IPMCs could help correct me if I am wrong, for > project that already open source and accepting contributions from > individuals which not part of initial committers is that it needs to > get the consent or g

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Henry Saputra
Hi Todd, One concern, other IPMCs could help correct me if I am wrong, for project that already open source and accepting contributions from individuals which not part of initial committers is that it needs to get the consent or grant from those contributors when moving to ASF. Unless, the individ

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Luke Han wrote: > In "community" section of this proposal, there are many companies > have been mentioned including Xiaomi, Dropbox, Intel and Dremio, > and said there are contributions from them. > > I think their engineers are more interesting and be involved >

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Luke Han
In "community" section of this proposal, there are many companies have been mentioned including Xiaomi, Dropbox, Intel and Dremio, and said there are contributions from them. I think their engineers are more interesting and be involved in Kudu actively, why not think about to invite them to be com

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:53PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Boudnik > wrote: > > > > > So, you're saying that people were chosen to be listed or not as the > > > contributors merely by the am

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:53PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > > So, you're saying that people were chosen to be listed or not as the > > contributors merely by the amount of the code they have contributed to the > > project. Am I reading

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Henry Robinson
And we'd be pleased to hear your advice over on our [DISCUSS] thread :) On 17 November 2015 at 16:59, Henry Saputra wrote: > You were trying to comment on Impala proposal =P > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Marvin Humphrey > wro

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Henry Saputra
You were trying to comment on Impala proposal =P On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > >> I agree that this prospective podling is going to have a lot o

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > I agree that this prospective podling is going to have a lot of work > to do, and I think that a more diverse Mentor corps is badly needed. > But those are separate issues. Bah

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > > For now, I think "meritocracy" should be followed -- when contributors > > demonstrate sufficient merit, we can add them as committers. Note that > > there are plenty of my coworkers who have made small contributions in the > > past

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > So, you're saying that people were chosen to be listed or not as the > contributors merely by the amount of the code they have contributed to the > project. Am I reading this right? We've had this debate about committer cattle call add

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:33PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Atri, > > > > > > Thanks for the interest! Following the example of other recent incubator > > > projects, we would like to keep the initial committer list to those who > > are > > > already have a track record of contributions to

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
> > > > Hi Atri, > > > > Thanks for the interest! Following the example of other recent incubator > > projects, we would like to keep the initial committer list to those who > are > > already have a track record of contributions to the project. We'd love to > > have you involved as a contributor du

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:43AM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Atri Sharma wrote: > > > Sounds great. > > > > I would love to be an help as a committer, if possible. This seems to be > > fantastic in line with my focus areas and can help existing big data > > projects to

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Atri Sharma wrote: > Sounds great. > > I would love to be an help as a committer, if possible. This seems to be > fantastic in line with my focus areas and can help existing big data > projects to accelerate so Kudu's growth is something I would care about. > Hi

Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Atri Sharma
Sounds great. I would love to be an help as a committer, if possible. This seems to be fantastic in line with my focus areas and can help existing big data projects to accelerate so Kudu's growth is something I would care about. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > Hi all, > >

[DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal

2015-11-17 Thread Todd Lipcon
Hi all, We'd like to start a discussion proposing the submission of Kudu to the Apache Incubator. The proposal is available on the Wiki here: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/KuduProposal and pasted in this email for easy quoting during discussion. Looking forward to hearing feedback! -Todd --