Hi Chris S, Thank you for that context. Based on my experience with gRPC my response would change.
I can only speak for myself, but I don't believe the removal of Kerberos would be a blocker since acceptable alternatives exist within the ecosystem. Thanks, Marc On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 3:38 PM Christopher Shannon < christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > To provide some more context, we are exploring other alternatives besides > Thrift for the RPC layer. Specifically I’ve been prototyping gRPC, which > has some nice benefits and features, but it is based on Netty snd HTTP/2 > and does not support Kerberos or SASL. > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM Marc Parisi <phroc...@apache.org> wrote: > >> I've struggled to get customers to engage in mailing lists -- not just >> for Apache Accumulo -- but other open source projects -- so I'm afraid I >> cannot share the same opinion on the need for formality -- especially since >> this revolves around a security focused feature. >> >> In my personal experience vendors who support projects directly are a bit >> more vocal but companies who use a project ( and are generally more focused >> on BL) are reluctant to engage -- and, a few in my experience, forbade it >> from their vendors until they determined it safe to do so. >> >> With that said I have a customer for whom I cannot speak publicly. Would >> they have an issue if support was removed? *Yes.* >> >> I know others on this list are in the same situation. I will do my best >> to coax them into contributing something if they can. >> >> Best of luck gathering feedback. >> >> Thanks, >> Marc >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 1:34 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> The ASF doesn't have a formal system on which we could reliably conduct >>> such a poll. This is just an informal open discussion with mailing list >>> subscribers. If somebody wanted to gather anonymous poll data and >>> contribute it to the discussion here, they are welcome to do that, and we >>> can consider its utility at that time if it happens, but I don't think it's >>> necessary to formalize a poll and add anonymity as a first attempt to get >>> feedback from users here. It's not a particularly sensitive question to ask >>> whether users would be impacted by the removal of any particular feature. >>> If users have sensitivities in answering, they can just be terse in their >>> response, respond privately off list, through a proxy, or not at all. We >>> can already expect that any responses will not be a complete picture >>> anyway, since not every user is subscribed to the mailing list. This is >>> just a best effort attempt to get some initial feedback. >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 13:20 Marc Parisi <phroc...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Would the data be any less useful if this were an anonymous poll? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Christopher Shannon < >>>> christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Oops, I cc'd the wrong dev list so make sure responses go to the >>>> right one. >>>> > >>>> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:50 PM Christopher Shannon < >>>> > christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> Hello Apache Accumulo Users, >>>> >> >>>> >> The Accumulo PMC would like to get some feedback on how widely used >>>> >> Kerberos[1] support currently is with existing users. Specifically >>>> we would >>>> >> like some feedback on the following questions: >>>> >> >>>> >> 1) Who is currently using Kerberos support with Apache Accumulo? >>>> >> 2) If you are using it, would you have an issue if support was >>>> removed in >>>> >> a future version? >>>> >> >>>> >> Thank you. >>>> >> >>>> >> [1] https://accumulo.apache.org/docs/2.x/security/kerberos >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> >>>
