Hi Dave,
I apologize if the answer you got to your question about VXQuery usage
to be clueless and abstract. Since we did not see any feedback to the
response to your question, the conclusion was that you were satisfied
with the answer. The VXQuery team would have and still would appreciate
any constructive ideas you might have that can help the project both
from a technical as well as a process point of view.
Thanks,
Vinayak
On 9/6/13 4:43 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
Hi Ant,
I was the shepherd on VXQuery in their last reporting period. I really don't
feel like anything is really happening in the project, at least not anywhere
that is visible. I even asked a technical question about one of their suggested
use cases - organize and accessing Edgar documents. A source I have actually
worked with. Company data is something I've been around all my life and I am in
my 50s. I grew up around company data since my father was a Finance Professor
at the University of Chicago and one of the founders of CRSP. My development
career also involves managing and analyzing company data.
Their answer was not clueful and very abstract. They have an idea for a query
engine without any idea how to get data into the engine. Anyone with a clue
would choose to use Apache Solr, Lucene, or something in the Hadoop cluster of
projects over VXQuery.
However if you think that a viable community and project is happening give it a
try.
But you should also look back to over a year ago when they got another chance.
How many another chances and mentor reboots should we give a project?
Regards,
Dave
On Sep 5, 2013, at 7:58 AM, ant elder wrote:
I don't see the need or point in being so draconian with the poddling
especially given its history, so if you really do want to initiate
retirement discussions if they've not released by their next report
(which is just a few weeks away right?) I'll be voting against it and
will volunteer to be a mentor to help try to keep them alive if they
want to keep trying.
...ant
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:01 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
To me VXQuery looks like an example of a project being let down by the
Incubator PMC.
Regardless, they will have to overcome their challenges themselves.
Similarly with the no releases in 4 years - they've attempted to
release twice and both times it stalled getting the votes, what they need
are mentors who can show them whats necessary to push releases and voting
through the Incubator.
VXQuery received guidance on pushing releases back in July[1]. It seems to
have had no effect[2].
The Incubator is not a hosting service. If VXQuery wants to be part of
Apache, they must release.
Marvin Humphrey
[1] http://s.apache.org/9Sg
[2] http://s.apache.org/rkn
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