[RESULT] [VOTE] Sharding-Sphere incubation proposal

[Roman Shaposhnik <rv...@apache.org>]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:41 PM Roman Shaposhnik <rv...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> on behalf of Sharding-Sphere community, I'd like to call
> a VOTE to accept it into the Apache Incubator. The full
> proposal is available on the wiki:
>     https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ShardingSphereProposal
> and it is also attached below for your convenience.
>
> Please cast your vote:
>
>   [ ] +1, bring Sharding-Sphere into Incubator
>   [ ] +0, I don't care either way,
>   [ ] -1, do not bring Sharding-Sphere into Incubator, because...

With 7 +1 binding votes, 7 +1 non-binding votes and NO +/-0
or -1 votes, this VOTE passes. Thanks to everyone who voted!

Bellow is a voting tally:

Binding
  Craig Russell
  Justin Mclean
  Willem Jiang
  Matt Sicker
  Dave Fisher
  Benjamin Hindman
  Roman Shaposhnik

Non-binding
   Sheng Wu
   Xin Wang
   Von Gosling
   Bruno Mahé
   Zhang Liang
   XIAORUI Wang
   Raja Sundaram Ganesan

Thanks,
Roman.

> The vote will open at least for 72 hours.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> = Abstract =
> Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
> middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and
> database orchestration. It provides maximum compatibility for
> applications through Sharding-JDBC (a driver to implement JDBC) or
> Sharding-Proxy (a proxy to implement database protocol).
>
> = Proposal =
> With a large number of end users, Sharding-Sphere has a fairly huge
> community in China. It is also widely adopted by many
> [[http://shardingsphere.io/community/en/company/|companies and
> organizations]] as a solution to process their massive amounts of
> data.
>
> We believe that bringing Sharding-Sphere into Apache Software
> Foundation could advance development of a stronger and more diverse
> open source community.
>
> Dangdang submits this proposal to donate Sharding-Sphere's source
> codes and all related documentations to Apache Software Foundation.
> The codes are already under Apache License Version 2.0.
>
>   * Code base: https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere
>
>   * Web site: http://shardingsphere.io/
>
>   * Documentations: http://shardingsphere.io/document/current/
>
>   * Community: http://shardingsphere.io/community/
>
> = Background =
>
> Relational database hardly supports such huge amounts of data any more
> which has increased rapidly in recent years, but for reason of
> technique maturity, developers and DBAs still want to use it to
> persist core data.
>
> Sharding-Sphere was open sourced on Github in 2016. At the very
> beginning, Sharding-Sphere is just a JDBC driver for data sharding
> (name as Sharding-JDBC) at Dangdang internal framework; now it offers
> data sharding, distributed transaction and database orchestration.
> Besides JDBC, proxy to implement MySQL database protocol is also
> supported at present. Furthermore, our roadmap includes Proxy for
> PostgreSQL protocol, Sidecar model, data repica and elastic data
> scalability function as well.
>
> Due to the extension of project, we provide proxy model and sidecar
> model in addition to JDBC model. Therefore, we rename it to
> Sharding-Sphere by
> [[https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere/issues/788|a
> public vote]], which refers to a sharding ecosphere with
> Sharding-JDBC, Sharding-Proxy and Sharding Sidecar as its three
> sub-projects.
>
> Sharding-JDBC has won the
> [[http://www.oschina.net/project/top_cn_2016|TOP 20 most popular open
> source projects in China 2016]].
>
> = Rationale =
>
> Relational database still plays a very important role on current
> application system. The maturity of products and surrounding
> ecosystem, the friendliness of its data query and developers' and
> DBAs' mastery of it, cannot be completely replaced with other types of
> database in the near future. However, current relational database
> cannot support cloud native very well and it is not friendly to
> distributed system.
>
> It is the ultimate goal of Sharding-Sphere, which manages the
> databases scattering around the system, to make user use distributed
> databases as simply as using a single one.
>
> Without extra cost, Sharding-JDBC directly connects database with Java
> application to get the best performance.
>
> Sharding-Proxy is deployed as a stateless server and supports MySQL
> protocol at present. In the paper
> [[https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2016/pavlo-newsql-sigmodrec2016.pdf|What’s
> Really New with NewSQL?]], three types of NewSQL are introduced, among
> which Sharding-Proxy is a Transparent Sharding Middleware.
>
> Sharding-Sidecar can be understood as a data panel in Service Mesh.
> The interaction between the application and the database provides a
> mesh layer. The concept of Database Mesh is similar to Service Mesh,
> and it focuses on how to connect data access applications to the
> database. Database Mesh will set up a huge grid system between
> applications and databases. Applications and databases need be placed
> in the grid system. They are all objects managed by the meshing layer.
>
> = Current Status =
> == Meritocracy ==
> Sharding-Sphere was incubated at Dangdang in 2015 and open sourced on
> GitHub in 2016. In 2017, Jingdong recognized its value and determined
> to sponsor this project. Sharding-Sphere has contributors and users
> from many companies; we have set up the PMC Team and Committer Team.
> New contributors are guided and reviewed by existed PMC members. When
> they are ready, PMC will start a vote to promote him/her to become a
> member of PMC or Committer Team. See the details See the details
> [[http://shardingsphere.io/community/en/organization/|here]].
> Contributions are always welcomed and highly valued.
>
> == Community ==
> Now we have set development teams for Sharding-Sphere respectively in
> Jingdong, Dangdang and Bestpay. Companies like Sohu and Dataman have
> shown great interest in Sharding-Sphere. We hope to grow the base of
> contributors by inviting all those who offer contributions through The
> Apache Way. Right now, we make use of github as code hosting as well
> as gitter for community communication.
>
> == Core Developers ==
> The core developers, including experienced open source developers and
> team leaders, have formed a group full of diversity.
>
> = Known Risks =
> == Orphaned products ==
> Three development teams from Jingdong, Dangdang and CHINA TELECOM
> Bestpay will spare no pains to work on Sharding-Sphere in the future
> with contributors from the growing community. Also, Sharding-Sphere is
> widely adopted in China by many
> [[http://shardingsphere.io/community/en/company/|companies and
> organizations]]. Thus, it is very unlikely that Sharding-Sphere
> becomes orphaned.
>
> == Inexperience with Open Source ==
>
> The current core developers all work for companies that have developed
> or contributed to many open source projects.
>
>   * Liang Zhang, PMC. He is the lead of two open source projects,
> Sharding-Sphere and Elastic-Job. Also Committer of Apache Dubbo
> (Incubator).
>
>   * Sheng Wu, PMC. He is the PPMC and committer of Apache
> SkyWalking(Incubating), Apache Zipkin(Incubating) contributor, CNCF
> OpenTracing member. Also contributed a lot other open source projects.
>
>   * Hongtao Gao, PMC. He is the PPMC and committer of Apache
> SkyWalking(Incubating) too. Also contribute a lot of features of
> Elastic-Job.
>
> Therefore, we believe we have enough experience to deal with open source.
>
> == Homogenous Developers ==
> The current core developers work across a variety of organizations
> including Jingdong, Dangdang and CHINA TELECOM Bestpay; some
> individual developers are accepted as core developers of
> Sharding-Sphere as well. Considering that Sohu and Dataman have shown
> great interest in Sharding-Sphere, we plan to encourage them to
> contribute and invite them as contributors to work together.
>
> == Reliance on Salaried Developers ==
> At present, three of the core developers are paid by their employer to
> contribute to Sharding-Sphere project. It is estimated that the
> development of Sharding-Sphere will be continued with mainly salaried
> developers, and we will make efforts to attract more volunteers and
> grow the community.
>
> == Relationships with Other Apache Products ==
>
> An automatic prober of Sharding-Sphere is introduced into SkyWalking
> to send APM data, and SkyWalking also use Sharding-Sphere to persit
> tracing data. Saga provided by ServiceComb is adopted by
> Sharding-Sphere as one of the distributed transaction processing
> engines. Sharding-Sphere integrates Apache Zookeeper as one of the
> service registration/discovery mechanisms.
>
> == A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ==
> We acknowledge the value and reputation that the Apache brand would
> bring to Sharding-Sphere. However, our primary interest is in the
> excellent community provided by Apache Software Foundation, in which
> all the projects could gain stability for long-term development.
>
> = Documentation =
> A complete set of Sharding-Sphere documentations is provided on
> shardingsphere.io in both English and Simplified Chinese.
>
>   * [[http://shardingsphere.io/document/current/en/overview/|English]]
>   * [[http://shardingsphere.io/document/current/cn/overview/|Chinese]]
>
> = Initial Source =
> The project consists of three distinct codebases: core, example and
> document. The address of three existed git repositories are as
> follows:
>
>   * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere
>   * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-example
>   * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-doc
>
> = Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan =
> The codes are currently under Apache License Version 2.0 and have been
> verified to have no intellectual property or license issues before
> being released to open source by Dangdang in 2016. Dangdang will
> provide SGA and all committers will sign ICLA after Sharding-Sphere is
> accepted into the Incubator.
>
> = External Dependencies =
>
> As all dependencies are managed using Apache Maven, none of the
> external libraries need to be packaged in a source distribution. All
> dependencies have Apache compatible licenses except MySQL (GPL-2.0).
>
> We will remove MySQL dependencies in future. MySQL JDBC driver is
> adopted by Sharding-Proxy to connect MySQL now; We will use SPI to
> load JDBC driver, so MySQL JDBC driver is no longer provided on
> Sharding-Sphere.
>
>   * Guava Apache-2.0
>   * Guava Retrying Apache-2.0
>   * commons-codec Apache-2.0
>   * commons-pool Apache-2.0
>   * commons-dbcp Apache-2.0
>   * netty Apache-2.0
>   * curator Apache-2.0
>   * grpc Apache-2.0
>   * protobuf BSD 3-clause
>   * lombok MIT
>   * groovy Apache-2.0
>   * snakeyaml Apache-2.0
>   * spring-context-support Apache-2.0
>   * spring-context-test Apache-2.0
>   * spring-boot-starter Apache-2.0
>   * spring-boot-configuration-processor Apache-2.0
>   * spring-boot-starter-test Apache-2.0
>   * slf4j MIT
>   * logback EPL-1.0
>   * junit EPL-1.0
>   * hamcrest BSD 3-clause
>   * mockito MIT
>   * h2 MPL-2.0/EPL-1.0
>   * mysql GPL-2.0 Will remove before first apache release, use SPI instead of it
>   * postgresql BSD
>   * mssql-jdbc MIT
>   * HikariCP Apache-2.0
>   * ANTLR BSD
>   * OpenTracing BSD
>
> = Required Resources =
> == Git Repositories ==
>   * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere.git
>   * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-example.git
>   * https://github.com/sharding-sphere/sharding-sphere-doc.git
>
>
> == Issue Tracking ==
>
> The community would like to continue using GitHub Issues.
>
> == Continuous Integration tool ==
> Travis
>
> == Mailing Lists ==
>   * Sharding-Sphere-dev: for development discussions
>   * Sharding-Sphere-private: for PPMC discussions
>   * Sharding-Sphere-notifications: for users notifications, and
> notifications from GitHub
>
> == Initial Committers ==
>   * 张亮, Liang Zhang, zhangliang@apache.org
>   * 曹昊, Hao Cao,
>   * 吴晟, Sheng Wu, wusheng@apache.org
>   * 高洪涛, Hongtao Gao, hanahmily@apache.org
>   * 张永伦, Yonglun Zhang
>   * 潘娟, Juan Pan
>   * 赵俊, Jun Zhao
>   * 岳令, Ling Yue
>   * 马晓光, Xiaoguang Ma
>   * 陈清阳, QingYang Chen
>   * 彭勇升, Yongsheng Peng, pengys@apache.org
>
> == Affiliations ==
>   * JD: Liang Zhang, Yonglun Zhang, Juan Pan, Jun Zhao
>   * Dangdang: Hao Cao, Ling Yue
>   * CHINA TELECOM Bestpay: QingYang Chen
>   * Individuals: Sheng Wu, Hongtao Gao, Xiaoguang Ma
>
> = Sponsors =
> == Champion ==
>   * Roman Shaposhnik (rvs at apache dot org)
>
> == Mentors ==
>   * Craig L Russell (clr at apache dot org)
>   * Benjamin Hindman (benh at apache dot org)
>   * Willem Ning Jiang (ningjiang at apache dot org)
>
> == Sponsoring Entity ==
> We are expecting the Apache Incubator could sponsor this project.

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