Hi all! I would like to bring a discussion about potential addition of the xdigest project [1] into the Apache Software Foundation though the incubator program.
In a few words, it's a simple library that provides implementations of the majority of cryptographic digest algorithms (SHA1, SHA2, MD5, etc.) with a focus on performance. Currently the implementations are derived from OpenSSL. This project originates from the work I've been doing in Subversion towards optimising checksums there. I believe that xdigest will find its perfect life under ASF. It meets many ideas that the foundation might be looking for. It greatly integrates into the Apache project collection, i.e. the nature of this project is related to other projects in the ASF (like Subversion). I think it's generally good for the ecosystem. The project itself is structured as a small library that has a straightforward vision of "doing one thing and doing it well" - compute fast checksums. However, there is one thing which is quite concerning; there is almost no/a little community around that this project could potentially bring. While the incubator's and Apache's documentations clearly state that it looks for a community. On the other hand, I believe that the community could be formed during incubation as well. I would really love to hear some opinions about this whole idea. Especially, if this fine when a podling begins its journey with essentially one person in the beginning and builds the community later? [1] https://github.com/rinrab/xdigest -- Timofei Zhakov --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
