On May 24, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ralph Goers > <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote: > >> The ONLY issue I see for Flume to graduate is diversity. No one will >> convince me that the current makeup constitutes diversity of any kind. > > Here are the committers who have been active in the past three months: > > * Brock Noland (Cloudera) > * Hari Shreedharan (Cloudera) > * Jarek Jarcec Cecho (AVG Technologies) > * Juhani Connolly (CyberAgent) > * Mike Percy (Cloudera) > * Mingjie Lai (Trend Micro) > * Prasad Mujumdar (Cloudera) > * Will McQueen (Cloudera) > * Arvind Prabhakar (Cloudera) > > There are four companies represented in this list: AVG Technologies, > Cloudera, CyberAgent and Trend Micro.
According to that 66% of active committers are from one organization. My understanding is that the diversity argument is to prevent one organization from causing the project to stall if they lost interest... see #2 in : http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Minimum+Graduation+Requirements That, potentially, helps to develop ability to tolerate and resolve conflicts (#5) without resorting to corporate structures. OTOH, graduation might actually help Flume get a more diverse community? Flume does seem to meet all other requirements... So, the question is: does the project feel that there is no single company which is vital to the success of the project? If so, Flume seems ready. Arun PS: From my own experience: in the early days of Hadoop we were very concerned about not just #companies but also the percentage of representation and this, perversely, led to discrimination against folks from the majority contributor who were, actually, very qualified! *smile* And no, I'm not saying that is the right thing to do! *smile*
