RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-25 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:22 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: XEN e.g. is GPLv2 licensed and you can not host any code at Apache that needs to be linked with XEN. Now that raises an interesting question ... if we define our own vendor neutral, Apache licensed,

RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-25 Thread Ryan, Michael P
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:22 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Now that raises an interesting question ... if we define our own vendor neutral, Apache licensed, interface definition, are we allowed to host the source for our own implementation of it that is intended

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-25 Thread Doug Cutting
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Doug Cutting wrote: I would expect that Tashi would use Xen command-line programs, not link directly to Xen's C API's. Why? Mostly because I don't know what I'm talking about, and I don't think we need to resolve this at this point on this list and I'm trying to

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-25 Thread Doug Cutting
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: To be clear: I don't want to be a road block here, I just like to have these questions discussed before incubation begins; nothing is worse than having Tashi in incubation for a few months, having them started a community at Apache and then finding out that there

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Michael Stroucken wrote: I have not been assigned to any part of this project as an employee of the university, and I am participating out of personal interest. I believe the project can improve services not just at our data centers, but at data centers in general. [...] Finally, as for the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 11:10 -0700, Doug Cutting wrote: Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: [...] Hi Doug, I noticed that you cut out the part about interfacing with Apache-incompatible code. As this project will be surrounded on all sides by non-Apache license able code, do you have a plan on how to

RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread Ryan, Michael P
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi Doug Cutting wrote: There's no conspiracy here to steal Apacheness. Rather, Yahoo!, Intel and CMU would like to collaborate on open source software. Intel and CMU have a prototype, and Yahoo! is interested in helping to develop this further. All three believe

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread Doug Cutting
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: I noticed that you cut out the part about interfacing with Apache-incompatible code. As this project will be surrounded on all sides by non-Apache license able code, do you have a plan on how to amend this and how does the current demo code handle this? I would

RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Doug Cutting wrote: There's no conspiracy here to steal Apacheness. Rather, Yahoo!, Intel and CMU would like to collaborate on open source software. Intel and CMU have a prototype, and Yahoo! is interested in helping to develop this further. All three believe that other parties will also

RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Doug Cutting wrote: I would expect that Tashi would use Xen command-line programs, not link directly to Xen's C API's. Why? Personally, I hope that you are wrong. I would expect Tashi to define a vendor neutral layer to which Xen, VMware, KVM, etc., implementations could be written.

RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: The wording for the Yahoo! slot sounded to me like there has been a decision at management level that CMU, Intel and Yahoo! want to do some work on that subject [...] I believe that we've made it clear that there are no corporate slots, and that the language

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread David O'Hallaron
No worries. I've removed the entry on the wiki version of the proposal at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal. It now reads simply: Initially, there will be one committer each from Carnegie Mellon and Intel Research: * Michael Stroucken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * Michael Ryan ([EMAIL

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Hi, a number of questions: - Are the proposed committers, people assigned to work on the project or are they genuinely interested in this software. IAW, will they stick around or leave as soon as they are reassigned to other projects or their grants run out? The wording for the Yahoo! slot

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Doug Cutting wrote: There's no conspiracy here to steal Apacheness. Rather, Yahoo!, Intel and CMU would like to collaborate on open source software. Intel and CMU have a prototype, and Yahoo! is interested in helping to develop this further. All three believe that other parties will also

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Cutting wrote: There's no conspiracy here to steal Apacheness. Rather, Yahoo!, Intel and CMU would like to collaborate on open source software. Intel and CMU have a prototype, and Yahoo! is interested in

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really don't see what the problem is here, there are two named committers in the proposal. Whatever the interests of the companies they work for, Tashi will have to create a healthy community to graduate and I don't

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Stroucken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi Hi, I've read the messages from Henning and William, and I'd like to address some of the concerns voiced by them. I'm Michael Stroucken, and I'm a senior systems programmer at CMU. That means I am staff, and my interests in the Tashi project

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-23 Thread Doug Cutting
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: This looks like a very interesting technology, and when proposed as a collaboration by actual persons A, B, and C (who happen to work for X, Y, and Z) we will have something to discuss. Great, because that's what I think we have. It so happens that persons D, E

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-22 Thread Doug Cutting
Noel J. Bergman wrote: With respect to Initially, we plan to start with one committer each from Carnegie Mellon and Intel Research, with a Yahoo committer to be determined later, that's awkwardly phrased. It appears to imply a corporate representative doing commits for hidden people, something

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Doug Cutting wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: With respect to Initially, we plan to start with one committer each from Carnegie Mellon and Intel Research, with a Yahoo committer to be determined later, that's awkwardly phrased. It appears to imply a corporate representative doing commits for

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-16 Thread David O'Hallaron
Matthieu, Thanks very much. I'll add you as a proposed mentor on the wiki proposal. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal Dave On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Matthieu Riou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:55 AM, David O'Hallaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-15 Thread David O'Hallaron
Matthieu, * The sponsoring entity is the Incubator so I'm guessing you're shooting for graduating as a TLP. What kind of interactions do you foresee with Hadoop for example? We talked with Doug Cutting about whether to shoot for a TLP or a subproject under Hadoop. We decided ultimately to go

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-15 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:55 AM, David O'Hallaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthieu, * The sponsoring entity is the Incubator so I'm guessing you're shooting for graduating as a TLP. What kind of interactions do you foresee with Hadoop for example? We talked with Doug Cutting about

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-14 Thread Matthieu Riou
Hi, I've reviewed the proposal as well, sounds pretty interesting. I have a couple of additional questions: * The sponsoring entity is the Incubator so I'm guessing you're shooting for graduating as a TLP. What kind of interactions do you foresee with Hadoop for example? * IIC Tashi is only

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-11 Thread David O'Hallaron
Noel, I've fixed the wording on the wiki text to clear up the initial committers: We've been talking with the storage group at HP, haven't approached the others yet, but would certainly welcome them. Thanks! Dave http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal *** David, I just reviewed

[PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-10 Thread David O'Hallaron
This is a proposal to enter the incubator. See http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal for the most up-to-date version. We're looking forward to comments from the community. Thanks! Dave -- -- David O'Hallaron, -- Director, Intel Research Pittsburgh -- Assoc Prof of CS and ECE,

RE: [PROPOSAL] Tashi

2008-07-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David, I just reviewed http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal. Interesting. Has anyone been in touch with VMware, XenSource, Google, Amazon, et al to invite them to participate? With respect to Initially, we plan to start with one committer each from Carnegie Mellon and Intel Research,