Mattjis, That’s awesome that the NFI might be willing to contribute source code to Storm!
I hope I didn’t come across as suggesting that pulling in HolmesNL/kafka-spout was not an option. That’s up to the Storm community to decide. The point I was trying to make was that contributions from corporate entities require additional steps. That’s especially true when the contribution is an entire codebase (vs. small patches to an existing codebase). The fact that the project is already Apache v2-licensed facilities part of the process. - Taylor On Mar 5, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Mattijs Ugen (DT) <matt...@holmes.nl> wrote: >> storm-kafka will be somewhat complicated by the fact that >> storm-kafka-0.8-plus was forked from the original source without commit >> history. We’ll also have to figure out both if to and how to maintain >> compatibility with two versions of kafka. I’ll propose starting with the >> original storm-kafka, preserving commit history, and we can work from >> there. As I mentioned previously, the author of storm-kafka-0.8-plus is >> willing to help out. >> >> While I agree that https://github.com/HolmesNL/kafka-spout is worthy of >> consideration, it’s a little more complicated from an IP clearance >> perspective. For that to be an option, I believe the Netherlands >> Forensics Institute (the entity owning the IP), would have to donate it >> to the ASF and go through a formal IP clearance process. > The reason we put the source for our take on the concept on github was > twofold: > > - provide others with something that's worked well for us > - allow us to benefit from efforts outside our own team in improving our > component > > If the ASF is interested in importing it, I'd personally say that would > fit our goals for the project. My personal opinion aside, I'll go find > someone who would be able to say something on the matter from the NFI's > point of view. The license should be compatible with such a step I > think, I'll get back to you on the rest of this when I know more. > > Kind regards, > > Mattijs Ugen > -- > Netherlands Forensic Institute >
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