Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-26 Thread Kevin Kuo
A big thanks to all that have left feedback! After much deliberation, we have decided to withdraw this proposal for the time being. The questions around licenses are delicate, and we are currently not ready to navigate them. Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:52 PM 申远 wrote: > You could

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-22 Thread 申远
You could also read the documentation[1] here about what license is allowed in ASF project. [1] https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a Best Regards, YorkShen 申远 申远 于2019年10月22日周二 下午2:49写道: > Base on my experience (wearing my Apache Weex's hat), GPL/LGPL dependency > is not

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-22 Thread 申远
Base on my experience (wearing my Apache Weex's hat), GPL/LGPL dependency is not compatible with ASF's policy, and you may want to fix the License problem at the beginning, even before into Incubator. Otherwise, GPL/LGPL dependency will give you a lot of pain than you'd ever expect. Best

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-21 Thread Javier Luraschi
Regarding licenses, dplyr is under MIT, see: https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/LICENSE.md. However, other packages are under GPL2. Here are all the packages that sparklyr currently depends on and their associated license (This was retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=,

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-21 Thread larry mccay
This looks interesting to me. I would be willing to contribute, if you would like to add me to the initial list of committers. On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:50 AM Matt Sicker wrote: > A lot of core R libraries seem to be under GPL. If we build more R > projects at Apache, it seems like we may

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-21 Thread Matt Sicker
A lot of core R libraries seem to be under GPL. If we build more R projects at Apache, it seems like we may need more Apache-licensed (or compatible) libraries in R. On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 03:12, Justin Mclean wrote: > > Hi, > > I also concerned that the initial committer list only contains 3

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, I also concerned that the initial committer list only contains 3 committers. Why have you not included others in the community that have made contributions? I don’t know if this is an issue or not but bring it up just in case you not aware. I can see that some of the tidyverse packages are

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Hi, it's an interesting proposal. I guess that one of your challenge during the incubation is to extend the community (only 3 initial committers is very low) and extend the diversity (two companies affiliation). Regards JB On 19/10/2019 17:53, Kevin Kuo wrote: > Greetings! > > We are

Re: [PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-19 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - An interesting proposal. I am concerned about the very small size of the Initial Committer list with 3 individuals one of whom I only see small contributions from on https://github.com/rstudio/sparklyr/graphs/contributors Do the Mentors intend to be active participants in the community?

[PROPOSAL] sparklyr

2019-10-19 Thread Kevin Kuo
Greetings! We are proposing to enter sparklyr (https://spark.rstudio.com/), an open source R package for interfacing with Apache Spark, into incubation. Please see the proposal below. == = Abstract = sparklyr is an open source R package providing an interface to Apache Spark, a system for