Any reason the design docs can't be put up in place of where the source would normally go?
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Tomer Shiran <tshi...@maprtech.com> wrote: > Marvin, thanks for commenting on the proposal! The initial committers have > been working on the design for several months, and will commit the design > once the project is approved, so we do not expect much friction during the > design phase. With that said, we certainly do want to engage others early > on, and our goal in incubating earlier is to encourage feedback and > contributions when it is still easy to change the APIs and extensibility > points. This is important because Drill (unlike, say, Google's Dremel) must > be really flexible in order to be relevant to a broad user base, allowing > multiple data sources, data formats and query languages. While many > projects enter incubation with a complete implementation, others don't, and > due to the nature of this project we think that in this case it is better > to start earlier. > > Thanks, > Tomer > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Initial Source >> > ============== >> > There is no initial source code. All source code will be developed within >> > the Apache Incubator. >> >> Coming in without any source code is going to pose a challenge to this >> podling. >> >> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#incubator >> >> The incubator filters projects on the basis of the likeliness of >> them becoming >> successful meritocratic communities. The basic requirements for >> incubation >> are: >> >> * a working codebase -- over the years and after several failures, >> the >> foundation came to understand that without an initial working >> codebase, it is generally hard to bootstrap a community. This is >> because merit is not well recognized by developers without a >> working >> codebase. Also, the friction that is developed during the initial >> design stage is likely to fragment the community. >> >> That last line in particular seems like something to watch out for. >> >> Marvin Humphrey >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
