re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-05-06 Thread Vadim Zaliva
Tom White wrote: I would like to propose Whirr as an incubator proposal. Whirr will be a set of libraries for running cloud services, such as Hadoop or Cassandra. The initial code (for Hadoop) is hosted as a Hadoop contrib module, but I believe it would flourish as its own project with its

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-29 Thread Patrick Hunt
Tom, I'd be happy to be a committer (or contributor) for Whirr. I'm very interested to see ZooKeeper supported. Also very interested in non-production uses (such as testing). Regards, Patrick - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-29 Thread Tom White
Patrick, That sounds great - thanks for volunteering. I've added you to the initial committer list on the proposal page at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WhirrProposal. Steve Loughran has volunteered to be a mentor; I've added his name too. I would like to send a vote on this proposal to the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-23 Thread Tom White
Thanks for the advice, Niclas. I've sent a mail to the PMC private list. Cheers, Tom On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tom White tomwh...@apache.org wrote: You do know any ASF member can sign up to be an incubator mentor,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-22 Thread Doug Cutting
Tom White wrote: The proposal is on the incubator wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WhirrProposal. This sounds useful to me. I'd be willing to help mentor. Doug - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-22 Thread Leo Simons
On 4/15/10 10:42 PM, Tom White wrote: I would like to propose Whirr as an incubator proposal. Whirr will be a set of libraries for running cloud services, such as Hadoop or Cassandra. The initial code (for Hadoop) is hosted as a Hadoop contrib module, but I believe it would flourish as its own

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-22 Thread Tom White
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: ...and pasted inline below (as is customary). The proposal looks fine to me. Like you mention your initial group of committers is a bit small which is a risk but hey, cloud is hot, go build community :) That's the plan.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-22 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tom White tomwh...@apache.org wrote: You do know any ASF member can sign up to be an incubator mentor, right? If I count correctly you have two on your list :) I didn't know that. I've added myself as a mentor. Just send a mail to PMC private list that you

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-16 Thread Tom White
Hi Chris, Thanks for your interest in the proposal. Using Whirr in other projects, like OODT, is definitely a use case I'm interested in. Also Solr would make a good service to include in Whirr. Cheers, Tom On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov

[PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-15 Thread Tom White
I would like to propose Whirr as an incubator proposal. Whirr will be a set of libraries for running cloud services, such as Hadoop or Cassandra. The initial code (for Hadoop) is hosted as a Hadoop contrib module, but I believe it would flourish as its own project with its own community. The

Re: [PROPOSAL] Whirr Project

2010-04-15 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hi Tom, This sounds interesting. It would be interesting to look at e.g., how we could take some of the OODT [1] configurations and use Whirr as a front-end to run them in the cloud. I also know the folks in Solr are using Zookeeper, so they may benefit from this project as well. I don't have