Having a lot of Yahoo employees on the Traffic Server Proposal back in 2009 was also a concern. This is something we were able to easily overcome in incubation. Building a healthy diverse community is one of the project's top priorities.
-Bryan > On Apr 27, 2017, at 5:37 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > While considering the project/product interesting I am curious how the > proposers and champion see this becoming a success as an ASF > podling/project. Currently there seems to be only one adopter (Yahoo), and > for most the contributors are paid employees (of Yahoo). > > Looking at the provided repo, and actions thereon, I see only 22 > contributors referenced as contributors whose code has been committed. Are > not all interested in joining the podling, or don't they just want to be > referenced in the proposal as initial contributors/committers? > > Looking at the list of initial contributors/committers I see Matteo Merli. > According to the proposal he is affiliated with an organisation called > Streaml.io. But according to LinkedIn he is affiliated with Yahoo. Which > one should be corrected. > > Furthermore I see a lot of forks (250 up to today) of the main repo on > GitHub, yet I don't see a lot of activity (code changes) reverting back to > the main repo. > > I fear this will be a podling with a very small base (adoption and > contribution wise). > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > OFBiz based solutions & services > > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> This proposal looks like something I'd be interested in helping >> out with... some basic questions: (1) How does the compare/contrast >> w/ Apache Kafka and (2) What is seen as the most applicable use-case >> for Pulsar? >> >> Funny aside: the 1st new car I ever bought with my own money was >> a Nissan Pulsar. It was a piece of crap :) >> >>> On Apr 26, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Joe Francis <j...@yahoo-inc.com.INVALID> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Dear Apache Incubator Community, >>> >>> >>> We would like to submit the Pulsar proposal to the incubator. Our draft >> is >>> available at: >>> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/PulsarProposal >>> >>> A quick overview of Pulsar: >>> >>> Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on >>> commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics, >>> guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor >> management for >>> subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication. >>> >>> We are obviously looking for feedback and comments on the proposal, as >> well >>> as a few mentors. Bryan Call has accepted to be our Champion. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> -Joe Francis >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
