Totally agree with most of what Sean said, just wanted to give an alternate take on the "maintainers" thing
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > There is no such list because there's no formal notion of ownership or > access to subsets of the project. Tracking an informal notion would be > process mostly for its own sake, and probably just go out of date. We sort > of tried this with 'maintainers' and it didn't actually do anything. > My perception of that situation is that the Apache process is actively antagonistic towards factoring out responsibility for particular parts of the code into a hierarchy. I think if Spark was under a different open source model, with otherwise exactly the same committers, that attempt at identifying maintainers would have worked out differently. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
