+1 —Anu > On May 13, 2020, at 12:53 AM, Elek, Marton <e...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > I would like to start a discussion to make a separate Apache project for Ozone > > > > ### HISTORY [1] > > * Apache Hadoop Ozone development started on a feature branch of Hadoop > repository (HDFS-7240) > > * In the October of 2017 a discussion has been started to merge it to the > Hadoop main branch > > * After a long discussion it's merged to Hadoop trunk at the March of 2018 > > * During the discussion of the merge, it was suggested multiple times to > create a separated project for the Ozone. But at that time: > 1). Ozone was tightly integrated with Hadoop/HDFS > 2). There was an active plan to use Block layer of Ozone (HDDS or HDSL at > that time) as the block level of HDFS > 3). The community of Ozone was a subset of the HDFS community > > * The first beta release of Ozone was just released. Seems to be a good time > before the first GA to make a decision about the future. > > > > ### WHAT HAS BEEN CHANGED > > During the last years Ozone became more and more independent both at the > community and code side. The separation has been suggested again and again > (for example by Owen [2] and Vinod [3]) > > > > From COMMUNITY point of view: > > > * Fortunately more and more new contributors are helping Ozone. Originally > the Ozone community was a subset of HDFS project. But now a bigger and bigger > part of the community is related to Ozone only. > > * It seems to be easier to _build_ the community as a separated project. > > * A new, younger project might have different practices (communication, > commiter criteria, development style) compared to old, mature project > > * It's easier to communicate (and improve) these standards in a separated > projects with clean boundaries > > * Separated project/brand can help to increase the adoption rate and attract > more individual contributor (AFAIK it has been seen in Submarine after a > similar move) > > * Contribution process can be communicated more easily, we can make first > time contribution more easy > > > > From CODE point of view Ozone became more and more independent: > > > * Ozone has different release cycle > > * Code is already separated from Hadoop code base (apache/hadoop-ozone.git) > > * It has separated CI (github actions) > > * Ozone uses different (more strict) coding style (zero toleration of unit > test / checkstyle errors) > > * The code itself became more and more independent from Hadoop on Maven > level. Originally it was compiled together with the in-tree latest Hadoop > snapshot. Now it depends on released Hadoop artifacts (RPC, Configuration...) > > * It starts to use multiple version of Hadoop (on client side) > > * Volume of resolved issues are already very high on Ozone side (Ozone had > slightly more resolved issues than HDFS/YARN/MAPREDUCE/COMMON all together in > the last 2-3 months) > > > Summary: Before the first Ozone GA release, It seems to be a good time to > discuss the long-term future of Ozone. Managing it as a separated TLP project > seems to have more benefits. > > > Please let me know what your opinion is... > > Thanks a lot, > Marton > > > > > > [1]: For more details, see: > https://github.com/apache/hadoop-ozone/blob/master/HISTORY.md > > [2]: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0d0253f6e5fa4f609bd9b917df8e1e4d8848e2b7fdb3099b730095e6%40%3Cprivate.hadoop.apache.org%3E > > [3]: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8be74421ea495a62e159f2b15d74627c63ea1f67a2464fa02c85d4aa%40%3Chdfs-dev.hadoop.apache.org%3E > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ozone-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: ozone-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org >
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