+1 (binding) On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote:
> Greetings, > > The discussion of the Gearpump proposal has concluded. Please vote to > accept Gearpump into the Apache Incubator. I will leave this vote open for > at least the next 72 hours and will aim to close it Monday the 7th of > March, 2016 at midnight PT. Gearpump is a flexible, efficient, and scalable > micro-service based real-time big data streaming engine. The text of the > proposal is included below and is also available at > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/GearpumpProposal > > [ ] +1 Accept Gearpump as an Apache Incubator podling. > [ ] +0 Abstain. > [ ] -1 Don’t accept Gearpump as an Apache Incubator podling because ... > > Note that while votes from Incubator PMC members are binding, all are most > definitely welcome to vote! > > I am +1 (binding). > > Best regards, > > - Andy > > ----- > > = Gearpump Proposal = > > === Abstract === > Gearpump is a flexible, efficient and scalable micro-service based > real-time big data streaming engine developed by Intel Corporation which > has been licensed by Intel under the Apache License 2.0. > > === Proposal === > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine; completely based on the > micro-service Actor model. Gearpump provides extremely high performance > stream processing while maintaining millisecond latency message delivery. > It enables reusable, composable flows or partial graphs that can be > remotely deployed and executed in a diverse set of environments, including > IoT edge devices. These flows may be deployed and modified at runtime -- a > capability few real time streaming frameworks provide today. > > The goal of this proposal is to incubate Gearpump as an Apache project in > order to build a diverse, healthy, and self-governed open source community > around this project. > > === Background === > In past decade, there have been many advances within real-time streaming > frameworks. Despite many advances, users of streaming frameworks often > complain about flexibility, efficiency, and scalability. Gearpump endeavors > to solve these challenges by adopting the micro-service Actor model. The > Actor model was proposed by Carl Hewitt in 1973. In the Actor model, each > actor is a message driven micro-service; actors are the basic building > blocks of concurrent computation. By leveraging Actor Model’s location > transparency feature,Gearpump allows a graph to be composed of several > partial graphs, where, for example, some parts may be deployed to remote > IoT edge devices, and other parts to a data center. This division and > deployment model can be changed at runtime to adapt to a changing physical > environment, providing extreme flexibility and elasticity in solving > various ingestion and analytics problems. We’ve found Actors to be a much > smaller computation unit compared with threads, where smaller usually means > better concurrency, and potentially better CPU utilization. > > === Rationale === > Gearpump tightly integrates and enhances the big data community of Apache > projects. Intel believes Gearpump can bring benefits to the Apache > community in a number of ways: > > 1. Gearpump complements many existing Apache projects, in particular, those > commonly found within the big data space. Users of this project are also > users of other Apache projects, such as Hadoop ecosystem projects. It is > beneficial to align these projects under the ASF umbrella. In real-time > streaming, Gearpump offers some special features that are useful for Apache > users, such as exactly-once processing with millisecond message level > latency and dynamic DAGs that allow online topology modifications. > > 2. Gearpump tightly integrates with Apache big data projects. It supports > for Apache HDFS, YARN, Kafka, and HBase. It uses Apache YARN for resource > scheduling and Apache HDFS as the essential distributed storage system. > > 3. The micro-service model of reusable flows that Gearpump has adopted is > very unique, and it may become common in the future.Gearpump sets a good > example about how distributed software can be implemented within a > micro-service model. An open project is of best interest to our users. By > joining Apache, it will be a neutral infrastructure platform that will > benefit everyone. > > 4. The process and development philosophy of Apache will help Gearpump > grow, > and build a diverse, healthy, and self-governed open source community. > > === Initial Goals === > 1. Migrate the existing codebase to Apache. > > 2. Setup Jira, website and other development tools by following Apache best > practices. > > 3. Start the first release per Apache guidelines as soon as possible. > > === Current Status === > Gearpump is hosted on Github. It has 1922 commits, 38284 line of code, and > 31 major or minor releases, with release notes highlighting the changes for > every release. It is licensed under Apache License Version 2. There is a > documentation site at http://gearpump.io > > including a user guide, internal details, use cases and a roadmap. There is > also an issue tracker where every code commit is tracked by a bug Id. Every > pull request is reviewed by several reviewers and will only be merged based > on consensus rule. These match Apache’s development ideals. > > ==== Meritocracy ==== > We think an open, fair, and renewing community culture is what we need and > what our users require, that will protect everyone in the community. We > would like the project to be free from potential undue influence from any > single organization. We will invest in supporting a meritocratic model. > > ==== Community ==== > Gearpump has a growing community with hundreds of stars on Github and an > active WeChat group with hundreds of subscriptions. We organize regular > offline meetup events. These efforts should help us to grow the community > at Apache. > > ==== Core Developers ==== > Most of the initial committers are Intel employees from China, the US, and > Poland. We are committed to build a diverse community which involves more > companies and individuals. > > === Alignment === > Gearpump has good alignment with other Apache projects. Gearpump is tightly > integrated with Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It uses Apache YARN for resource > scheduling and Apache HDFS for storage. The unique streaming processing > abilities Gearpump complements other Apache big data projects today. We > believe there will be a synergistic effect by aligning Gearpump under the > Apache umbrella. > > === Known Risks === > > ==== Orphaned products ==== > Intel has a long-term interest in big data and open source and a proven > record of contributing to Apache projects. The risk of theGearpump project > being abandoned is very small. Besides, Intel is seeing an increasing > interest in Gearpump from different organizations. We are committed to get > more support, adoption, and code contribution from different companies. > > ==== Inexperience with Open Source ==== > Gearpump is an existing project under the Apache License, Version 2.0 with > a long history record of open development. Initial committers of this > project have years of open sourcing contribution experiences, including > code contribution to HDFS, HBase, Storm, YARN, Sqoop, and etc. Some of the > initial committers are also committers to other Apache projects. > > ==== Homogeneous Developers ==== > The current list of committers includes developers from different > geographies and time zones; they are able to collaborate effectively in a > geographically dispersed environment. We are committed to recruit more > committers from different companies to get a more diverse mixture. > > ==== Reliance on Salaried Developers ==== > Most of our current Gearpump developers are Intel employees who are > contributing to this project. Our developers are passionate about this > project and spend a lot of their own personal time on the project. We are > confident that their interests will remain strong. We are committed to > recruiting additional committers from the community as well. > > ==== Relationships with Other Apache Product ==== > Gearpump codebase is closely integrated with Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, > and Apache Kafka. Gearpump also has some similarities with Apache Storm. > Although Gearpump and Storm are both systems for real-time stream > processing, they have fundamentally different architectures. In particular, > Gearpump adopts the micro-service model, building on the Akka framework, > for concurrency, isolation and error handling, which we believe is a future > trend for building distributed software. We look forward to collaboration > with other Apache communities. > > ==== An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ==== > The ASF has a strong brand; we appreciate that fact and will protect the > brand. Gearpump is an existing open source project with many committers and > years of effort. The reasons to join Apache are outlined in the Rationale > section above. > > === Documentation === > Information on Gearpump can be found at: > Gearpump website: http://gearpump.io > Codebase: https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump > > === Initial Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan === > The Gearpump codebase is currently hosted on Github: https://github.com/ > gearpump/gearpump. We will use this codebase to migrate to the Apache > foundation. The Gearpump source code is licensed under Apache License > Version 2.0 and will be kept that way. All contributions on the project > will be licensed directly to the Apache foundation through signed > Individual Contributor License Agreements or Corporate Contributor License > Agreements. > > === External Dependencies === > All of Gearpump dependencies are distributed under Apache compatible > licenses. > > Gearpump leverages Akka which has Apache 2.0 licensing for current and > planned versions > > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.12/project/licenses.html#Licenses_for_Dependency_Libraries > > === Cryptography === > Gearpump does not include or utilize cryptographic code. > > === Required Resources === > We request that following resources be created for the project to use > > ==== Mailing lists ==== > > gearpump-priv...@incubator.apache.org (with moderated subscriptions) > gearpump-dev > gearpump-user > gearpump-commits > > ==== Git repository ==== > Git is the preferred source control system: git://git.apache.org/gearpump > > ==== Documentation ==== > https://gearpump.incubator.apache.org/docs/ > > ==== JIRA instance ==== > JIRA Gearpump (GEARPUMP) > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/gearpump > > === Initial Committers === > * Xiang Zhong <xiang dot zhong at intel dot com> > > * Tianlun Zhang <tianlun dot zhang at intel dot com> > > * Qian Xu <qian dot a dot xu at intel dot com> > > * Huafeng Wang <huafeng dot wang at intel dot com> > > * Kam Kasravi <kam dot d dot kasravi at intel dot com> > > * Weihua Jiang <weihua dot jiang at intel dot com> > > * Tomasz Targonski <tomasz dot targonski at intel dot com> > > * Karol Brejna <karol dot brejna at intel dot com> > > * Gang Wang <gang1 dot wang at intel dot com> > > * Mark Chmarny <mark dot chmarny at intel dot com> > > * Xinglang Wang <xingwang at ebay dot com > > > * Lan Wang <lan dot wanglan at huawei dot com> > > * Jianzhong Chen <jianzhong dot chen at cloudera dot com> > > * Xuefu Zhang <xuefu at apache dot org> > > * Rui Li <rui dot li at intel dot com> > > === Affiliations === > * Xiang Zhong – Intel > > * Tianlun Zhang – Intel > > * Qian Xu – Intel > > * Huafeng Wang – Intel > > * Kam Kasravi – Intel > > * Weihua Jiang – Intel > > * Tomasz Targonski – Intel > > * Karol Brejna – Intel > > * Mark Chmarny – Intel > > * Gang Wang – Intel > > * Mark Chmarny – Intel > > * Xinglang Wang – Ebay > > * Lan Wang – Huawei > > * Jianzhong Chen – Cloudera > > * Xuefu Zhang – Cloudera > > * Rui Li – Intel > > === Sponsors === > > ==== Champion ==== > Andrew Purtell <apurtell at apache dot org> > > ==== Nominated Mentors ==== > * Andrew Purtell <apurtell at apache dot org> > > * Jarek Jarcec Cecho <Jarcec at cloudera dot com> > > * Todd Lipcon <todd at cloudera dot com> > > * Xuefu Zhang <xuefu at apache dot org> > > * Reynold Xin <rxin at databricks dot com> > > ==== Sponsoring Entity ==== > Apache Incubator PMC > > >
