Re: [EXTERNAL] Apache Kafka project charter

2018-10-01 Thread McCaig, Rhys
Ewen, Thanks for your comments on this - It’s really useful context and it would be great to include a note summarizing this in the contributor guidelines, especially for connectors. Unfortunately I missed (sorry) the “rejected alternatives” discussed in KIP-26 when I wrote KIP-310. It probab

Re: Apache Kafka project charter

2018-09-30 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Hey all, Sorry I haven't been closely following the threads on this, but I think I can provide a bit more color. Jakub, re: general policy, I'll take the blame that the relevant "rejected alternatives" section in the KIP https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58851767#KI

Re: Apache Kafka project charter

2018-09-30 Thread Matthias J. Sax
I am not aware of anything like this. And I also think, it's difficult to generalize. So far, each feature is discussed on a per-case basis. Because it's hard to draw the boarder line we might be too restrictive or too loose in a "project charter", thus, scaring people from starting KIPs, what wou

Apache Kafka project charter

2018-09-29 Thread Jakub Scholz
Hi community, I noticed following argument in the discussion about KIP-310. > However, I don't think the apache/kafka repository is the right place to host such a Connector. I was wondering whether there is some project charter describing what does and what does not belong to the Apache Kafka pr