Re: [PROPOSAL] Accumulo for the Apache Incubator

2011-09-02 Thread Adam P Fuchs
Owen, I believe the answer is yes regarding the code grant, and I am currently confirming that with our lawyers. We'll get you an official answer early next week. The LGPL dependencies are not core to Accumulo, and we're working on substituting other packages. We would have no problem doing th

Re: [PROPOSAL] Accumulo for the Apache Incubator

2011-09-03 Thread Adam P Fuchs
Hi Bernd, The latest stable release of Accumulo contains roughly 200,000 lines of code, of which about 85,000 are machine generated thrift code. Of the remaining code, about 15,000 lines are derived from other Apache projects, and about 1,500 of those are derived from HBase code. The code deriv

Re: [PROPOSAL] Accumulo for the Apache Incubator

2011-09-06 Thread Adam P Fuchs
Hey Steve, We would like to be able to contribute back where appropriate. We think that our BloomFilter improvements and some of our MapFile improvements are generally useful, and those should be pretty natural contributions back to Hadoop. Other modifications may not be so obviously generally

Re: Accumulo incubator proposal: Statement of Concern

2011-09-06 Thread Adam P Fuchs
Hello Doug, I appreciate your concerns, and I would like to try to provide some context that might help you understand why we think the ASF is the right place for Accumulo. Benson is correct that the Accumulo developers have historically not been authorized to participate in public open-source