BoF at FOSDEM : Bigtop future

[Olaf Flebbe <of...@oflebbe.de>]

Hi,

we had a BoF room at FOSDEM: Ganesh and Marcin from Linaro and Myself, Roman attending shortly.

My main motivation for this BoF was my impression that Bigtop is slowing down to a stop.

Most of our active devs (including me) are out of the Big Data business and resources to get new things done are severely missing.
I am now active for over an year to pick up eventually some review work, if a new dev would come up: But that did not worked out that well.

Since Big Data business is consolidating and Hadoop support is mainstream, I kindly asking the downstream consumers of Apache Bigtop:
Please put developer resources on it: Not to fix obsolete Bigtop releases, but to pick up innovations. Not only to provide code, but to do reviews as well.

My personal 2 cents (Euro cents of course ;-)

Thanks,
Olaf

Re: BoF at FOSDEM : Bigtop future

[Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org>]

Well, I guess the time it took me to actually reply to this thread
echoes overall
point that Olaf is trying to make. A few comments inline:

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Olaf Flebbe <of...@oflebbe.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we had a BoF room at FOSDEM: Ganesh and Marcin from Linaro and Myself, Roman attending shortly.
>
> My main motivation for this BoF was my impression that Bigtop is slowing down to a stop.

I think it is a fair observation that the project is entering its slow
phase and some
kind of "new blood" (be it community members or initiatives) would be
very welcome
at this point.

> Most of our active devs (including me) are out of the Big Data business and resources to get new things done are severely missing.
> I am now active for over an year to pick up eventually some review work, if a new dev would come up: But that did not worked out that well.

Same here. My day job at this point has very little to do with
bigdata. It may actually
change in a few years as my startup grows, but for next 12-18 month --
I can only
cheer from the sidelines so to speak.

> Since Big Data business is consolidating and Hadoop support is mainstream, I kindly asking the downstream consumers of Apache Bigtop:
> Please put developer resources on it: Not to fix obsolete Bigtop releases, but to pick up innovations. Not only to provide code, but to do reviews as well.

On that note -- it would be interesting to find out what ODPi thinks about this.

I know Cos was talking to them at some point. Cos, any comments on this?

Thanks,
Roman.