+1 (non-binding) With Warm regards Billy Liu
2018-02-05 11:31 GMT+08:00 yukon <yu...@apache.org>: > Glad to see Dubbo here, Dubbo is really a great RPC framework and widely > used in China. > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Adam Feng <cxfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> Adam Feng >> >> On 3 Feb 2018, 7:45 PM +0800, Huxing Zhang <hux...@apache.org>, wrote: >> > Dear Apache Incubator Community, >> > >> > Please accept the following proposal for presentation and discussion: >> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DubboProposal >> > >> > Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, Java based RPC framework. >> > Dubbo offers three key features, which includes interface based remote >> > call, fault tolerance & load balancing, and automatic service >> > registration & discovery. >> > >> > Any feedback from the incubator community is much appreciated. >> > >> > I've attached the proposal below. >> > >> > Best Regards, >> > Huxing >> > >> > = Dubbo Proposal = >> > >> > == Abstract == >> > >> > Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework >> > open-sourced by Alibaba. As in many RPC systems, Dubbo is based around >> > the idea of defining a service, specifying the methods that can be >> > called remotely with their parameters and return types. On the server >> > side, the server implements this interface and runs a Dubbo server to >> > handle client calls. On the client side, the client has a stub that >> > provides the same methods as the server. >> > >> > == Proposal == >> > >> > Dubbo has a fairly huge community today, and is widely adopted by many >> > companies and organizations, but most of them are in China. We believe >> > running Dubbo in Apache Software Foundation can facilitate development >> > of a stronger and more diverse community. >> > >> > Alibaba submits this proposal to donate Dubbo's source code and its >> > side projects to the Apache Software Foundation. The code is already >> > under the Apache License Version 2.0. Dubbo source code and its side >> > projects are hosted on github right now: >> > >> > * Dubbo code base: https://github.com/alibaba/dubbo >> > * Web site: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo.github.io >> > * Documentations: User >> > Guide(http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-user-book-en), Development >> > Guide(http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-dev-book-en), Admin >> > Manual(http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-admin-book-en) >> > * Other side projects hosted under dubbo group(https://github.com/dubbo) >> > >> > == Background == >> > >> > Dubbo was developed at Alibaba in 2011 and has been widely used in >> > many production lines there since then. Dubbo offers three key >> > features, which include interface based remote call, fault tolerance & >> > load balancing, and automatic service registration & discovery. Since >> > Dubbo is open-sourced on github, it's been received up to 15k stars, >> > and has been forked for more than 10k times. Besides being widely >> > adopted inside Alibaba, Dubbo is also used in approximately 80% of >> > internet companies in China, including JingDong(http://www.jd.com), >> > DangDang(http://www.dangdang.com), Qunar(https://www.qunar.com), >> > NetEase Kaola(https://www.kaola.com), etc. In 2017, Dubbo has won the >> > TOP 10 most popular open source projects in China for 2 consecutive >> > years since 2016. >> > >> > We'd like to share this outstanding framework at the Apache Software >> > Foundation, and start developing a wider community through the Apache >> > way. We believe more people and organizations can be benefit from it >> > by doing so. >> > >> > == Rationale == >> > >> > Remote procedure call (RPC) is one of the cornerstones to build >> > distributed systems, especially useful in today's e-commercial >> > industry and cloud computing providers. Dubbo is the java-based RPC >> > implementation. By using Dubbo, developers can call the remote service >> > just like call a local method but without worrying about the details >> > for the remote interaction. We expect more interesting features and >> > use cases to emerge from the community ranging from microservices to >> > cloud computing, and many other areas. >> > >> > == Current Status == >> > >> > === Meritocracy === >> > >> > The intent of this proposal is to start building a diverse developer >> > and user community around Dubbo following the ASF meritocracy model. >> > Since Dubbo was open sourced, many companies in China adopted Dubbo to >> > build up their own contributing system, moreover, we received many >> > enhancements or issue reports from them at the same time. The codebase >> > is now mainly managed by the development team inside Alibaba who's >> > responsible for building internal distributed system too. Any >> > suggestion or issue is discussed on >> > https://github.com/alibaba/dubbo/issues and more casual talk happens >> > in gitter channel (https://gitter.im/alibaba/dubbo). We plan to invite >> > more people as committers if they contribute to this project. >> > >> > === Community === >> > >> > Dubbo is currently being developed by the development team inside >> > Alibaba who's responsible for building internal distributed system >> > too. Since it's open-sourced, Dubbo is widely adopted by many other >> > companies including CNUCC (China Nets Union Clearing Corporation), >> > ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China), China Life Insurance, >> > DiDi, Qunar, Dangdang, NetEase Kaola, Maoyan Movie, GOME, Haier, CSDC >> > (China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited), >> > AsiaInfo, and many more. We hope to grow the base of contributors by >> > inviting all those who offer contributions and excel through the use >> > of The Apache Way. Contributions from outside of Alibaba are >> > constantly accepted by Dubbo project and its side projects. Right >> > now, we make use of github as code hosting as well as both Google >> > Groups and gitter for community communication. >> > >> > === Core Developers === >> > >> > Dubbo is currently being developed by engineers from Alibaba, >> > Dangdang, Qunar and WeiDian. Ding Li, Huxing Zhang, Ian Luo, Jun Liu, >> > Liujie Qin, Mercy Ma, Von Gosling, William Liang are working for >> > Alibaba. Most of them are working in Alibaba middleware team, and some >> > of them are also the core members of internal RPC framework, HSF (high >> > speed service framework). Von Gosling is the co-creator of Apache >> > RocketMQ, while Huxing Zhang is one of Apache Tomcat PMC members. >> > Besides, the Dubbo core developers also includes Xin Wang from >> > WeiDian, Liang Zhang from DangDang, Zhaohui Yu from Qunar. All of them >> > are in charge of building and maintaining distributed system in their >> > organizations, and have great passion in contributing back into Dubbo >> > project. >> > >> > === Aligment === >> > >> > The ASF is the natural choice to host the Dubbo project as its goal of >> > encouraging community-driven open source projects fits with our vision >> > for Dubbo. The ASF is also the home to many other projects with which >> > we are familiar with and hope to integrate better with Dubbo including >> > Apache Thrift, Apache Zookeeper, etc. We believe that there will be >> > mutual benefit by close proximity to these and other projects. >> > >> > == Known Risks == >> > >> > === Orphaned products === >> > >> > The core developers currently work full-time on RPC area for Alibaba. >> > Dubbo is widely adopted by many companies and individuals. There's no >> > realistic chance of it becoming orphaned. >> > >> > === Inexperience with Open Source === >> > >> > The core developers are all active contributors, users and followers >> > of open source. They are all already committers and contributors to >> > Dubbo project, and have gained good experience in running open-source >> > project in Github and interacting with the community. Moreover, Von >> > Gosling and Huxing Zhang from the initial committer, both are working >> > on Apache projects (RocketMQ and Tomcat respectively), will guide >> > others to practice the Apache Way together along with other incubator >> > mentors. >> > >> > === Homogenous Developers === >> > >> > The current set of developers work across a variety of organizations >> > including Alibaba, DangDang, Qunar, and WeiDian. Furthermore, many >> > other companies forked Dubbo and continued to enhance in their own >> > private repositories. We plan to encourage them to contribute and >> > invite them as contributors to work on one common code base. >> > >> > === Reliance on Salaried Developers === >> > >> > Currently, most of core developers are paid to work on Dubbo project >> > by Alibaba. We look forward to attracting more people outside Alibaba >> > to join this project, either payed engineers working on RPC area, or >> > individual volunteers, as long as they have enthusiasm for the Dubbo >> > project. >> > >> > === Relationships with Other Apache Products === >> > >> > Dubbo integrates Apache Thrift as one of RPC protocols it supports, >> > and Apache Zookeeper as one of service registration/discovery >> > machanisms. We look forward to collaborating with those communities >> > and any others which use RPC. >> > >> > === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === >> > >> > While we respect the reputation of the Apache brand and have no doubt >> > that it will attract new contributors and users, our interest is >> > primarily to give Dubbo a solid home as an open source project >> > following an established development model. More reasons are provided >> > in the Rationale and Alignment sections. >> > >> > == Documentation == >> > >> > A complete set of Dubbo documentations is provided on dubbo.io in both >> > English and Simplified Chinese. >> > >> > * Dubbo user guide: >> > http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-user-book-en(English), >> > http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-user-book(Chinese) >> > * Dubbo development guide: >> > http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-dev-book-en(English), >> > http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-dev-book(Chinese) >> > * Dubbo admin manual: >> > http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-admin-book-en(English), >> > http://dubbo.io/books/dubbo-admin-book(Chinese) >> > >> > == Initial Source == >> > >> > Dubbo was initially developed within Alibaba, and then was >> > open-sourced with The Apache License 2.0 under Alibaba Group on Github >> > in 2011. Besides the core code base, Dubbo also hosts its side >> > projects on github but in a dedicated group instead of Alibaba. >> > Specifically, the initial source includes: >> > >> > * Dubbo code base: https://github.com/alibaba/dubbo >> > * Spring Boot Support: https://github.com/dubbo/ >> dubbo-spring-boot-project >> > * Dubbo Admin Console: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-ops >> > * Json RPC extension: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-rpc-jsonrpc >> > * Home Page: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo.github.io >> > * Dubbo Documentation: >> > * User guide: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-user-book-en >> > * Developer guide: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-dev-book-en >> > * Admin guide: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-admin-book-en >> > * Dubbo Documentation (Chinese) >> > * User guide: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-user-book >> > * Developer guide: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-dev-book >> > * Admin guide: https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-admin-book >> > * Samples/Demo: >> > * https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-feature-test >> > * https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-docker-sample >> > * https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-http-demo >> > * https://github.com/dubbo/dubbo-ws-demo >> > >> > >> > == External Dependencies == >> > >> > As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the >> > external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution. The >> > dependencies all have Apache compatible licenses. These include BSD, >> > CDDL, CPL, MPL and MIT licensed dependencies. There are only 3 >> > transitive dependencies(javassist, netty, and spring-context), and all >> > the other dependencies are optional, which are not included in a Dubbo >> > release. >> > >> > Dependency License Optional? >> > javassist Apache License 2.0/MPL 1.1 false >> > netty Apache License 2.0 false >> > spring-context Apache License 2.0 false >> > httpclient Apache License 2.0 true >> > zookeeper Apache License 2.0 true >> > zkclient Apache License 2.0 true >> > curator-framework Apache License 2.0 true >> > cxf Apache License 2.0 true >> > libthrift Apache License 2.0 true >> > commons-logging Apache License 2.0 true >> > commons-lang Apache License 2.0 true >> > mina Apache License 2.0 true >> > fastjson Apache License 2.0 true >> > xmemcached Apache License 2.0 true >> > hessian Apache License 1.1 true >> > tomcat Apache License 2.0 true >> > jetty Apache License 2.0/EPL 1.0 true >> > validation-api Apache License 2.0 true >> > hibernate-validator Apache License 2.0 true >> > cache-api Apache License 2.0 true >> > log4j Apache License 2.0 true >> > easymock Apache License 2.0 true >> > cglib-nodep Apache License 2.0 true >> > resteasy Apache License 2.0 true >> > fst Apache License 2.0 true >> > slf4j-api MIT true >> > jmockit MIT true >> > jedis MIT true >> > grizzly CDDL 1.1 true >> > servlet-api CDDL 1.1 true >> > javax.el CDDL 1.1 true >> > logback-classic EPL 1.0 true >> > junit EPL 1.0 true >> > kryo BSD 3-clause true >> > >> > >> > == Required Resources == >> > >> > === Mailing lists === >> > >> > * dubbo-private (PMC discussion) >> > * dubbo-dev (developer discussion) >> > * dubbo-user (user discussion) >> > * dubbo-commits (SCM commits) >> > * dubbo-issues (JIRA issue feed) >> > >> > === Subversion Directory === >> > >> > Instead of subversion, Dubbo prefers to git as source control >> > management system: git://git.apache.org/dubbo >> > >> > === Issue Tracking === >> > >> > JIRA Dubbo (Dubbo) >> > >> > === Other Resources === >> > >> > The existing source code already has unit tests so we will make use of >> > existing Apache continuous testing infrastructure. The resulting load >> > should not be very large. >> > >> > == Initial Committers == >> > >> > (In alphabetical order) >> > >> > * Ding Li (oldratlee at gmail dot com) >> > * Huxing Zhang (huxing at apache dot org) >> > * Ian Luo (ian.luo at gmail dot com) >> > * Jean-Frederic Clere (jfclere at apache dot org) >> > * Jun Liu (ken.lj.hz at gmail dot com) >> > * John D. Ament (johndament at apache dot org) >> > * Justin McLean (jmclean at apache dot org) >> > * Liang Zhang (terrymanu at 163 dot com) >> > * Liujie Qin (qinliujieyangliu at gmail dot com) >> > * Mark Thomas (markt at apache dot org) >> > * Mercy Ma (mercyblitz at gmail dot com) >> > * Von Gosling (vongosling at apache dot org) >> > * William Liang (liangfei0201 at gmail dot com) >> > * Xin Wang (ovepoem at hotmail dot com) >> > * Zhaohui Yu (yuyijq at gmail dot com) >> > >> > == Affiliations == >> > >> > (In alphabetical order) >> > >> > * Alibaba: Ding Li, Huxing Zhang, Ian Luo, Jun Liu, Liujie Qin, Mercy >> > Ma, Von Gosling, William Liang >> > * Class Software: Justin McLean >> > * DangDang: Liang Zhang >> > * Pivotal: Mark Thomas >> > * Qunar: Zhaohui Yu >> > * Redhat: Jean-Frederic Clere >> > * Sparta Systems: John D. Ament >> > * WeiDian: Xin Wang >> > >> > == Additional Interested Contributors == >> > >> > (In alphabetical order) >> > >> > * Hanson Huang (hanson19921129 at gmail dot com) >> > * Jerrick Zhu (diecui1202 at gmail dot com) >> > * Peng Wei (weipeng2k at gmail dot com) >> > * Yuneng Xie (xieyuneng at gmail dot com) >> > * Zhixuan Cheng (hengyunabc at gmail dot com) >> > >> > == Sponsors == >> > >> > === Champion === >> > >> > * Justin McLean (jmclean at apache dot org) >> > >> > === Nominated Mentors === >> > >> > * Justin McLean (jmclean at apache dot org) >> > * John D. Ament (johndament at apache dot org) >> > * Jean-Frederic Clere (jfclere at apache dot org) >> > * Mark Thomas (markt at apache dot org) >> > >> > ==== Informal Mentors ==== >> > >> > * Huxing Zhang (huxing at apache dot org) >> > * Von Gosling (vongosling at apache dot org) >> > >> > >> > === Sponsoring Entity === >> > >> > We are requesting the Incubator to sponsor this project. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > 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
