Hi John, Proposals for new ASF projects are offered to this list for constructive feedback. I am happy to help steer the RocketMQ proposal and project using your suggestions.
First, as explained previously in this discussion thread by Von Gosling, there was some company IP that was mistakenly committed to the Github repository and through a '...unlucky... scavenging activity' the history was erased, as Von put it. I interpret this to mean that someone's git-fu went awry which unintentionally caused the history to be removed. Von also gives further explanation of the project history in a response below. Indeed, this is an unfortunate situation (and one that I've seen before with git), but should this prevent the project from coming to the ASF to improve and grow under the auspices of the ASF and The Apache Way? Second, regarding your statement: 'and its a bit surprising, since Bruce is the chair of one of the competitors' -- All projects at the ASF exist together regardless of their focus and all projects needs good mentors, regardless of whether they are seen as competing or not. My interest in helping the RocketMQ project is no different than my interest in continuing to be involved with the ActiveMQ project. I have nearly 15 years experience at the ASF and I'm not here to play games and favor one project over another. I continue to be involved with the ASF to collaborate constructively with others on open source and to foster a community of inclusiveness where we can all continually learn and grow. The ASF is an inclusive place where even experienced projects can learn from new projects. As I've said for many years, we all come for code and stay for the people. My intent is to use my experience to help a new project and people to the ASF. Third, I think the two questions you have posed are both good suggestions for discussion and debate and might even help to improve the proposal. Even if there are no solid answers today, I think these would also be great ideas to debate around the code base and within the project moving forward. I really like the idea of cross-pollination with the projects you mentioned as well as others at the ASF. Since I have not worked on the RocketMQ code base, I will allow Von to respond to two questions posed by John with his thoughts: Von, can you please provide your thoughts on the following two questions specifically: - How can RocketMQ work with the existing Kafka or ActiveMQ communities to build cross platform clients? - How can RocketMQ look to leverage Cassandra, Geode, Derby as backend persistence stores? Bruce On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:26 PM, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:43 PM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: > > > The proposal looks fine in general, but I'm slightly concerned about: > > https://github.com/alibaba/RocketMQ/graphs/contributors > > > > It seems that the model so far has been -- through huge blobs of > > code over the wall. Given that the composition of initial committers > > is all from Alibaba I hope their mentors will spend a lot of time > > making sure that "commit early, commit often" mentality prevails. > > > > In addition to that, I can't seem to reconcile the statement: > > "The source code was opened up in 2012." > > with what I see on GitHub. What am I missing? > > > > So I think these are the same points I was bringing up as well. I suspect > its a case where there wasn't a ton of open source development on the > product and it was kept internal. > > I'm still a bit leary about the "relationship with other apache products" > section still. I'm not interested in seeing how a podling competes with > other projects (and its a bit surprising, since Bruce is the chair of one > of the competitors), but instead how the podling has synergies with the > other components. I raised that they're using ASF projects today in their > code base. > > Some other ways to address this section: > > - How can RocketMQ work with the existing Kafka or ActiveMQ communities to > build cross platform clients? > - How can RocketMQ look to leverage Cassandra, Geode, Derby as backend > persistence stores? > > etc.. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. > > > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Brian McCallister <bri...@skife.org> > > wrote: > > > +1 ! > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Cool. > > >> > > >> +1 > > >> > > >> > On Nov 3, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Bruce Snyder <bruce.sny...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > Please find below a proposal for a new Incubator podling named > Apache > > >> > RocketMQ, a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy > > to > > >> use > > >> > message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts > > of > > >> > streaming data. > > >> > > > >> > The draft proposal can be found in the wiki at the following URL: > > >> > > > >> > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RocketMQProposal > > >> > > > >> > Below, please find the text for the proposal below. > > >> > > > >> > Thanks, > > >> > > > >> > Bruce > > >> > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/> Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder
