Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
- Are the proposed committers, people "assigned to work on the project" or are they genuinely interested in this software.
Those are not necessarily disjoint sets. Folks who are "assigned" are frequently also "genuinely interested", and vice versa.
IAW, will they stick around or leave as soon as they are reassigned to other projects or their grants run out?
Folks who are "genuinely interested" often lose interest over time, and folks who are "assigned" are often long-term contributors who even change employers and are "re-assigned" to work on the same project, i.e., are hired for their familiarity and involvement with the project. Nearly everyone on Hadoop from Y! was initially assigned. Most have found it a plum assignment. A few have moved on, some to Hadoop-related jobs at other companies.
The wording for the Yahoo! "slot" sounded to me like there has been a decision at management level that CMU, Intel and Yahoo! want to do some work on that subject and they like to have the soft, warm glow of Apacheness on their effort for a (PR?) reason.
There's no conspiracy here to steal Apacheness. Rather, Yahoo!, Intel and CMU would like to collaborate on open source software. Intel and CMU have a prototype, and Yahoo! is interested in helping to develop this further. All three believe that other parties will also be interested in this software. Apache is a good home for collaborative, open-source software projects, no?
Also, if Tashi doesn't garner a diverse, active set of contributors in the incubator, it will die a slow death with little harm done.
So there is an engineer from each group assigned to "work on this" until further notice. From thirteen names on the proposal, only two will be committers? I know about Doug, who are the other ten?
Several are managers that contributed to the proposal. They control budgets that will pay contributors. Should they remove their names?
That is not exactly the kind of project that we want. The whole Tashi proposal sounds to me like an abstract to a scientific paper, which has the tendency that as soon as the paper is done, the interest in the subject goes down.
That is certainly not my understanding. The intent as I understand it is to build cluster management software that will actually be used to manage clusters. Yahoo!, my employer, has many clusters and seeks better software to manage them.
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