Marvin, I agree that building a diverse community and users and committers will the greatest challenge for Weave (or what it will be named). One of main motivations for open-sourcing Weave is that it will benefit from the variety of use cases that will emerge outside of our office, and will eventually lead to more versatile and mature technology. We have already received interest from several people outside of Continuuity who wish to use and improve Weave, and we believe that a diverse community can be built. We will do our best to emphasize community and avoid closed-door decisions.
-Andreas. On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andreas Neumann <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > I would like to propose Weave, an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to > > reduce the complexity of developing distributed applications, as an > Apache > > Incubator podling. > > Leaving aside the naming issues, the proposal is well crafted and you > already > have three experienced Mentors on board; I don't have any substantive > suggestions. > > The one thing that jumps out is the homogenaity of the initial committer > list, which will be an important challenge during incubation. With all > five > of the initial committers in the same office, it will be vital to emphasize > communicating on the dev list so that potential contributors never feel as > though they've been left out of the loop. (I'm reminded of Aurora, which > entered incubation with 7 Twitter employees as the initial committers[1].) > > Marvin Humphrey > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AuroraProposal > http://markmail.org/message/nzjqackh2n63skiz > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
