Hi all,
I wanted to raise something that's been on my mind for a while regarding the sustainability of Apache Storm itself. From what I've observed, getting the 3 votes required for releases and decisions has become quite cumbersome - sometimes really hard - and that makes me worry about how viable Storm is as a foundation for us going forward. On a more positive note, I noticed that Dávid recently showed up in one of the Storm issues. I think it would be a good idea to try to get a few more people from the StormCrawler side involved in Storm directly. One thing that helps here: Storm doesn't differentiate between Committer and PMC - they vote new people straight into the PMC. So it could be a relatively clean way to inject some fresh contributors and voting power into the project. If we don't manage to do something along those lines, I'm afraid we'll have to seriously consider re-inventing or migrating our underlying cluster technology to another stream processing framework sooner rather than later, and let Storm die (in the attic). I'd rather avoid that if we can since the technology has a proven record in web crawling projects. Any thoughts? Gruß Richard
