+1 This would be great. On 9/4/13 1:07 AM, "Nathan Marz" <nat...@nathanmarz.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone, > >I'd like to propose Storm to be an Apache Incubator project. After much >thought I believe this is the right next step for the project, and I look >forward to hearing everyone's thoughts and feedback! > >Here's a link to the proposal: >https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StormProposal > >The proposal is also pasted below. > >-Nathan > > >= Storm Proposal = > >== Abstract == > >Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime >computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of >data. > >== Proposal == > >Storm is a distributed real-time computation system. Similar to how Hadoop >provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm >provides a set of general primitives for doing real-time computation. Its >use cases span stream processing, distributed RPC, continuous computation, >and more. Storm has become a preferred technology for near-realtime >big-data processing by many organizations worldwide (see a partial list at >https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By). As an open source >project, Storm¹s developer community has grown rapidly to 46 members. > >== Background == > >The past decade has seen a revolution in data processing. MapReduce, >Hadoop, and related technologies have made it possible to store and >process >data at scales previously unthinkable. Unfortunately, these data >processing >technologies are not realtime systems, nor are they meant to be. The lack >of a "Hadoop of realtime" has become the biggest hole in the data >processing ecosystem. Storm fills that hole. > >Storm was initially developed and deployed at BackType in 2011. After 7 >months of development BackType was acquired by Twitter in July 2011. Storm >was open sourced in September 2011. > >Storm has been under continuous development on its Github repository since >being open-sourced. It has undergone four major releases (0.5, 0.6, 0.7, >0.8) and many minor ones. > >== Rationale == > >Storm is a general platform for low-latency big-data processing. It is >complementary to the existing Apache projects, such as Hadoop. Many >applications are actually exploring using both Hadoop and Storm for >big-data processing. Bringing Storm into Apache is very beneficial to both >Apache community and Storm community. > >The rapid growth of Storm community is empowered by open source. We >believe >the Apache foundation is a great fit as the long-term home for Storm, as >it >provides an established process for community-driven development and >decision making by consensus. This is exactly the model we want for future >Storm development. > >== Initial Goals == > > * Move the existing codebase to Apache > * Integrate with the Apache development process > * Ensure all dependencies are compliant with Apache License version 2.0 > * Incremental development and releases per Apache guidelines > >== Current Status == > >Storm has undergone four major releases (0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8) and many >minor >ones. Storm 0.9 is about to be released. Storm is being used in production >by over 50 organizations. Storm codebase is currently hosted at >github.com, >which will seed the Apache git repository. > >=== Meritocracy === > >We plan to invest in supporting a meritocracy. We will discuss the >requirements in an open forum. Several companies have already expressed >interest in this project, and we intend to invite additional developers to >participate. We will encourage and monitor community participation so that >privileges can be extended to those that contribute. > >=== Community === > >The need for a low-latency big-data processing platform in the open source >is tremendous. Storm is currently being used by at least 50 organizations >worldwide (see https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Powered-By), and >is >the most starred Java project on Github. By bringing Storm into Apache, we >believe that the community will grow even bigger. > >=== Core Developers === > >Storm was started by Nathan Marz at BackType, and now has developers from >Yahoo!, Microsoft, Alibaba, Infochimps, and many other companies. > >=== Alignment === > >In the big-data processing ecosystem, Storm is a very popular low-latency >platform, while Hadoop is the primary platform for batch processing. We >believe that it will help the further growth of big-data community by >having Hadoop and Storm aligned within Apache foundation. The alignment is >also beneficial to other Apache communities (such as Zookeeper, Thrift, >Mesos). We could include additional sub-projects, Storm-on-YARN and >Storm-on-Mesos, in the near future. > >== Known Risks == > >=== Orphaned Products === > >The risk of the Storm project being abandoned is minimal. There are at >least 50 organizations (Twitter, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Groupon, Baidu, >Alibaba, Alipay, Taobao, PARC, RocketFuel etc) are highly incentivized to >continue development. Many of these organizations have built critical >business applications upon Storm, and have devoted significant internal >infrastructure investment in Storm. > >=== Inexperience with Open Source === > >Storm has existed as a healthy open source project for several years. >During that time, we have curated an open-source community successfully, >attracting over 40 developers from a diverse group of companies including >Twitter, Yahoo!, and Alibaba. > >=== Homogenous Developers === > >The initial committers are employed by large companies (including Twitter, >Yahoo!, Alibaba, Microsoft) and well-funded startups. Storm has an active >community of developers, and we are committed to recruiting additional >committers based on their contributions to the project. > >=== Reliance on Salaried Developers === > >It is expected that Storm development will occur on both salaried time and >on volunteer time, after hours. The majority of initial committers are >paid >by their employer to contribute to this project. However, they are all >passionate about the project, and we are confident that the project will >continue even if no salaried developers contribute to the project. We are >committed to recruiting additional committers including non-salaried >developers. > >=== Relationships with Other Apache Products === > >As mentioned in the Alignment section, Storm is closely integrated with >Hadoop, >Zookeeper, Thrift, YARN and Mesos in a numerous ways. We look forward to >collaborating with those communities, as well as other Apache communities >(including Apache S4 which focuses on stateful low-latency processing). > >=== An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === > >Storm is already a healthy and well known open source project. This >proposal is not for the purpose of generating publicity. Rather, the >primary benefits to joining Apache are those outlined in the Rationale >section. > >== Documentation == > >The reader will find these websites highly relevant: > > * Storm website: http://storm-project.net > * Storm documentation: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki > * Codebase: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm > * User group: https://groups.google.com/group/storm-user > >== Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan == > >The Storm codebase is currently hosted on Github: >https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm. > >This is the exact codebase that we would migrate to the Apache foundation. > >The Storm source code is currently licensed under Eclipse Public License >Version 1.0. Some source code was contributed under a contributor >agreement >based on the Sun contributor agreement (v1.5). More recent code has been >contributed under an Apache style agreement (see >https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/133901206/storm-apache-style-cla.txt). > >Upon entering Apache, Storm will migrate to an Apache License 2.0 with all >contributions licensed to the Apache Foundation. In certain cases where >individuals or organizations hold copyright, we will ensure they grant a >license to the Apache Foundation. Going forward, all commits will be >licensed directly to the Apache foundation through our signed Individual >Contributor License Agreements for all committers on the project. > >Yahoo! is also willing to move Storm-on-YARN code from github to be a >subproject of Apache Storm project. Storm-on-YARN is currently licensed >under Apache License 2.0 and receive contribution under Apache style CLA. >Upon entering Apache, Yahoo! will sign over copyright to Apache >foundation. > >== External Dependencies == > >To the best of our knowledge, all of Storm dependencies (except 0MQ/JMQ) >are distributed under Apache compatible licenses. Upon acceptance to the >incubator, we would begin a thorough analysis of all transitive >dependencies to verify this fact and introduce license checking into the >build and release process (for instance integrating Apache Rat). > >Storm has used 0MQ and JMQ as the default mechanism for internal messaging >layer, and 0MQ/JMQ is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License. >Recently, we have made Storm messaging layer pluggable, and plan to use >Netty (which is licensed under Apache License v2) as our default messaging >plugin (while keep 0MQ as an optional plugin). > >== Cryptography == > >We do not expect Storm to be a controlled export item due to the use of >encryption. > >Storm enable encryptions via 2 plugins: > > * SASL authentication plugins Š Currently, we have provide ³no-op² >authentication and digest authentication. In near future, we will >introduce >Kerberos authentication. > * Tuple payload serialization plugins Š Storm provides plugins for >plain-object serialization and blowfish encryption. > >== Required Resources == > >=== Mailing lists === > >* storm-user >* storm-dev >* storm-private (with moderated subscriptions) > >=== Subversion Directory === > >Git is the preferred source control system: git://git.apache.org/storm > >=== Issue Tracking === > >JIRA Storm (STORM) > >== Initial Committers == > > * Nathan Marz <nathan at nathanmarz dot com> > * James Xu <xumingmingv at gmail dot com> > * Jason Jackson <jason at cvk dot ca> > * Andy Feng <afeng at yahoo-inc dot com> > * Flip Kromer <flip at infochimps dot com> > * David Lao <davidlao at microsoft dot com> > * P. Taylor Goetz <ptgoetz at gmail dot com> > >== Affiliations == > > * Nathan Marz - Nathan¹s Startup > * James Xu - Alibaba > * Jason Jackson - Twitter > * Andy Feng - Yahoo! > * Flip Kromer - Infochimps > * David Lao - Microsoft > * P. Taylor Goetz - Health Market Science > >== Sponsors == > >=== Champion === > > * Doug Cutting <cutting at apache dot org> > >=== Nominated Mentors === > > * Ted Dunning <tdunning at maprtech.com> > * Arvind Prabhaker <arvind at apache dot org> > * Devaraj Das <ddas at hortonworks dot com> > >=== Sponsoring Entity === > >The Apache Incubator --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
