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Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Chris Thistlethwaite <chr...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > I'd like to start a vote on accepting Warble into the Apache Incubator. > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1d62a2948d047cea38e6f01f92d5f138f8 > 3acd2c9d86349023fb28e4@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E > The ASF voting rules are described: > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > A vote for accepting a new Apache Incubator podling is a majority > votefor which only Incubator PMC member votes are binding. > This vote will run for at least 72 hours. Please VOTE as follows[ ] +1 > Accept Warble into the Apache Incubator[ ] +0 Abstain.[ ] -1 Do not > accept Warble into the Incubator > The proposal is listed below, but you can also access it on the wiki:ht > tps://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WarbleProposal > > Thank you,Chris T. > > > = Apache Warble Proposal = > == Abstract == > Apache Warble is a distributed endpoint monitoring solution where > the agent is hosted on your own hardware. The aim of Warble is to > produce a more balanced and less binary view of services and > systems, lowering the rates of false positives while also providing > greater insight into possible peering issues and proactive > trend analysis. == Proposal == The goal of Warble > will be to bring internal control of distributed monitoring back to > the end user. Warble can be used as an independent service running > on your own infrastructure monitoring other services in your > infrastructure. == Background and Rationale == The > beginning of this project was prompted by the service > pingmybox.com (PMB) going end of life. This brought up conversation > about FOSS services that can monitor internal and external > services. PMB offered a unique code base to build this service upon > a known infrastructure. === Initial Goals === > Bring PMB code into the ASF, refactor the client/server into a > more reusable structure. Further reuse of code gives us the a great > starting point to build a starting point. == Current Status > == The software exists as a proprietary service. We wish to > convert this to a FLOSS solution. == Meritocracy > == The initial PMC list covers new folks coming into the > ASF. == Community == There exists a large user-base of > software like Warble, as well as existing users of the old propietary > service. It is our hope that we can convert a great deal of these to > contributors and testers for the new open source > product. == Core Developers == The initial set of > developers are a lot of newcomers: > * Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> * Chris Thistlethwaite > <chr...@apache.org> * Haig Didizian <h...@didizian.com> * Andrew > Karetas <ajkare...@gmail.com> * Chandler Claxton > <claxtonchand...@gmail.com> * Luke Stevens > <snevets.e...@gmail.com> * Mike Andescavage > <michael.andescav...@live.com> * Chris Lambertus > <c...@apache.org> == Known Risks == There are many > existing services that provide external monitoring. They are well > established and have large user bases. === Orphaned Products > === The initial PMC has great interest in open source projects, > though no formal projects have been > run. === Inexperience with Open Source === Most of > the initial PPMC members are new to the ASF and some are new to open > source projects. However, all are very interested in giving back to > the community and projects. Having said that, there are several > people involved with extensive experience in the Apache Way and our > procedures and processes. === Homogenous Developers > === The initial set of developers are employed by a variety of > companies, located across the world, and used to working on a > variety of distributed projects. === Reliance on Salaried > Developers === We do not expect the interest of the proposed > initial PMC to be directly tied to current employment, but will > actively seek to grow our volunteer base > regardless. === Relationships with Other Apache Products > === Not much to say here. Many ASF projects make use of the > proprietary offering, we wish to open source it and have people > engage in the development of the project. There are, at present, > indirect relationships in that some dependencies are built on > Apache software, but these are generally by proxy and does not > merit considering Warble as a sub-project of an existing > TLP. == Initial Source == The initial task of the > PMC will be assessing what we wish the project to contain. The > proprietary vendor is willing to donate the software, > but considerable rewriting and relicensing will have to take place. > This will likely happen in stages, with the scrapers and UI being > ported first, and a backend auth system being partly ported/donated, > and partly developed from scratch at the ASF. === Source and > Intellectual Property Submission Plan === All the existing code > in question (from the PMB suite) is owned by Quenda IvS, and will be > donated to the ASF. === External Dependencies === The > current code base depends on incompatible licenses > for visualizations. We will work towards 100% compatibility with the > Apache License v/2. === Cryptography === Warble will > make use of some SSL/TLS and cryptography in order to transmit > data between nodes and main server, however we will not be > incorporating any cryptography in the project code itself, but > rather rely on existing encryption libraries and > protocols. == Required Resources == === Mailing Lists > === priv...@warble.apache.org (moderated > subscriptions) comm...@warble.apache.org issues > @warble.apache.org d...@warble.apache.org use > r...@warble.apache.org === Repositories === * https://gitbox > .apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-warble.git === Issue Tracking > === We will be starting with just GitHub Issues/PRs and later > assess the possible need for something else. === Other Resources > === We have no other requirements at present. We will > require one or more VMs at some point, however, it may be the > case that we can get these donated by companies interested in > furthering the development of the project. > > === domain name: === https://warble.apache.org == > Initial PMC == > * Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> * Chris Thistlethwaite <ch > r...@apache.org> * Haig Didizian <h...@didizian.com> * Andrew > Karetas <ajkare...@gmail.com> * Chandler Claxton <claxtonchandler@gm > ail.com> * Luke Stevens <snevets.e...@gmail.com> * Mike > Andescavage <michael.andescav...@live.com> === Affiliations > === PMC members are employees of ASF, Microsoft, Evolve Guest > Solutions, Revolt Consulting, and independently > employed == Sponsors == === Champion > === Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> === Nominated > Mentors === Daniel Pono Takamori <p...@apache.org> === S > ponsoring Entity === >
