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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:30:53 +0530
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Subject: Re: [Proposal][Vote] Traffic Server
From: Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@opensource.lk>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: Doug Cutting <dcutting@yahoo-inc.com>,
 Charles Neerdaels <chuckn@yahoo-inc.com>
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Leif Hedstrom <leif@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> As you know, we've been preparing our proposal to submit Traffic Server to
> the Incubator for a few weeks now. With the help from our champion (thanks
> Doug!), and the entire Incubator community, it's my pleasure to submit a
> request for Traffic Server to be accepted into the Incubator. The proposal
> is attached below, and is also available on the Wiki:
>
>  http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafficServerProposal
>
>
> Since our first draft, we've added a number of mentors and contributors,
> and also added and improved on the proposal. I would like this to be
> considered our official application, and that the Incubator votes (+ or -)
> on our acceptance as a podling.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> -- leif
>
>
> Traffic Server
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>     Abstract
>
> Traffic Server is fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching
> proxy server.
>
>
>     Proposal
>
> The goal is to create an Apache top level project to Open Source the
> existing Yahoo! Traffic Server code. Traffic Server (TS for short) is used
> in-house to deliver significant amount of HTTP traffic to millions of users.
>
> Key Features:
>
>   *
>
>     HTTP/1.1 caching proxy server
>
>   *
>
>     Scalable on SMP (TS is a hybrid thread + event processor)
>
>   *
>
>     Extensible: TS has a feature rich plugin API
>
>   *
>
>     Fast
>
>
>     Background
>
> Traffic Server is a piece of software initially acquired by Yahoo! from
> Inktomi. The software has been actively developed and used at Yahoo for the
> last three years, and we're now getting ready to Open Source this project.
>
>
>     Rationale
>
> Traffic Server fills a need for a fast, extensible and scalable HTTP proxy
> and caching. We have a production proven piece of software that can deliver
> HTTP traffic at high rates, and can scale well on modern SMP hardware. We
> have benchmarked Traffic Server to handle in excess of 35,000 RPS on a
> single box. Traffic Server has a rich feature set, implementing most of
> HTTP/1.1 to the RFC specifications.
>
>
>     Initial goals
>
> The initial goal is to build a community of developers and users of the
> Traffic Server software. Longer term goal is to address a few feature
> additions that we think are beneficial:
>
>   *
>
>     Full 64-bit support
>
>   *
>
>     Porting to more Unix flavors (currently we only support Linux)
>
>   *
>
>     Add missing features, e.g., CARP, HTCP, ESI and native IPv6
>
>   *
>
>     Incremental improvements to existing features, and performance
>
>
>     Current Status
>
>
>       Meritocracy
>
> Building our developer community using the meritocracy is important to the
> success of Traffic Server. We know there are many developers out there
> interested in the technology, and the meritocracy system is a great way to
> encourage participation.
>
>
>       Community
>
> Our hope is that our existing code, features and capabilities will attract
> a large community of both developers and users. We know that several
> developers who have previously worked on the code, are looking forward to
> participating in the Open Source efforts. We also believe that other
> organizations will find this project interesting and relevant, and
> contribute resources.
>
> The user community of Traffic Server would be similar to that of the Apache
> HTTP server, and in many cases they would overlap.
>
>
>       Core Developers
>
>   *
>
>     Leif Hedstrom <leif at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Bryan Call <bcall at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Vijaya Bhaskar Mamidi <vmamidi at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Steve Jiang <sjiang at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Dima Ruban <dima at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Anirban Kundu <akundu at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Andrew Hsu <andrewhs at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Eric Balsa <eric at ericbalsa.com
>
>   *
>
>     BalaKrishna <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BalaKrishna> JD
>     <balakrishnajd at yahoo.com>
>
>
>       Alignment
>
> Yahoo! is already a contributor to the Apache Foundation. We are already
> familiar with the ASF process, and we know it provides everything we need
> and require to be successful. We also feel there is a natural symbiotic
> relationship between Traffic Server and the Apache HTTP server, which is how
> TS is generally used at Yahoo!. The Traffic Server team is also in the same
> organization as the Yahoo! Hadoop developers, which is already an Apache
> TLP.
>
>
>     Known Risks
>
>
>       Orphaned Products
>
> Traffic Server is widely used and deployed inside of Yahoo!. It's not going
> away anytime soon; in fact, it's growing fast.
>
>
>       Inexperience with Open Source
>
> All Yahoo! participants are active users and contributors to Open Source
> projects. Leif is a committer at Mozilla (although no longer active),
> creator of PerLDAP, as well as creator of a Yahoo! search API (pYsearch).
> Bryan Call is the creator of cksfv, and contributor to lmsensor. Dima Ruban
> has been an active developer in the FreeBSD project.
>
>
>       Homogeneous Developers
>
> The current list of committers are mostly members of the Yahoo! developer
> team, but we are actively recruiting other developers. The hope is that we
> can quickly attract more members, either people just interested in the
> technology, or people familiar with the code base from previous employment.
>
>
>       Reliance on Salaried Developers
>
> Most initial committers are salaried employees of Yahoo!, but we are
> actively recruiting non-yahoo team members.
>
>
>       Relationships with Other Apache Products
>
> Traffic Server integrates well with the Apache HTTP daemon, as a proxy and
> cache.
>
>
>       An excessive fascination with the Apache brand
>
> Our decision to apply to the ASF is simple. Y! has already contributed
> several projects to the ASF, and the Apache collaboration model and license
> further Yahoo!'s goals.
>
>
>       Trade Mark
>
> Traffic Server is currently a trademark owned by Yahoo! in four
> jurisdictions: Australia, Japan, Norway and the United States. The
> registrations in Japan and the U.S. are set to expire this year (2009). The
> registration in Australia is set to expire at the end of May 2010. That
> leaves the registration in Norway which is set to expire in March 2019.
>
> Two proposals are on the table: The first solution is to simply assign all
> rights, title and interest in and to the TRAFFIC SERVER mark including the
> four active registrations to ASF (though we'd probably want to make this
> contingent on TS graduating from the incubator). Our second possible option
> is to provide ASF with a letter of assurance stating that we own all right,
> title and interest in and to the TRAFFIC SERVER mark and the four active
> registrations and that we will not take any action against ASF or any of its
> licensees during the life of these registrations (and we'd express our
> intention of letting them lapse and expire).
>
>
>     Documentation
>
> TS comes with both an Administration Guide and a Developer Guide. Work will
> begin soon to improve this documentation, and the hope is to move it to our
> podling web site once activated.
>
>
>     Initial Source
>
> All code is currently in-house at Yahoo!, and we're working on getting it
> cleaned up and cleared to be uploaded to the Apache SVN servers.
>
>
>     Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan
>
> All TS code is fully owned by Yahoo! Inc, and we're finalizing all the
> legal paperwork around releasing it as Open Source, under the Apache
> license. We've hired an external company to do full code review of all
> source files, to assure it's not tainted. The sanitized code of Yahoo!
> Traffic Server would become the Apache Traffic Server.
>
>
>     External Dependencies
>
> Traffic Server has no external dependencies, other than standard libraries
> like BDB, OpenSSL, TCL, STL, glibc and expat.
>
>
>     Cryptography
>
> Traffic Server uses OpenSSL to implement HTTPS support. There is no other
> cryptographic code in the source tree.
>
>
>     Required Resources
>
>
>       Mailing lists
>
>   *
>
>     trafficserver-private (with moderated subscriptions)
>
>   *
>
>     trafficserver-dev
>
>   *
>
>     trafficserver-commits
>
>   *
>
>     trafficserver-user
>
>
>       Subversion Directory
>
> [WWW] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/trafficserver
>
>
>       Issue Tracking
>
> Bugzilla: Traffic Server
>
>
>     Initial Committers
>
> We have two categories of committers: TS code developers and contributors
> working primarily on documentation and community development. Everyone below
> would need initial committers privileges.
>
> Yahoo developers:
>
>   *
>
>     Leif Hedstrom <leif at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Bryan Call <bcall at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Vijaya Bhaskar Mamidi <vmamidi at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Steve Jiang <sjiang at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Dima Ruban <dima at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Anirban Kundu <akundu at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Andrew Hsu <andrewhs at yahoo-inc.com>
>
> Non-Yahoo developers:
>
>   *
>
>     Eric Balsa <eric at ericbalsa.com>
>
>   *
>
>     BalaKrishna <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BalaKrishna> JD
>     <balakrishnajd at yahoo.com>
>
> Product management, documentation and community support:
>
>   *
>
>     Miles Libbey <mlibbeymail-apache at yahoo.com>
>
>   *
>
>     Ray Rivera <rayriver @ yahoo-inc.com>
>
>
>     Affiliations
>
> Many of the initial developers are employed by Yahoo!. Yahoo! is also an
> active user of the Traffic Server software.
>
>
>     Sponsors
>
>
>       Champion
>
>   *
>
>     Doug Cutting <dcutting at yahoo-inc.com>
>
>
>       Nominated Mentors
>
>   *
>
>     Doug Cutting
>
>   *
>
>     Jim Jagielski
>
>   *
>
>     Jean-Frederic Clere
>
>   *
>
>     Mladen Turk
>
>   *
>
>     Nick Kew
>
>
>       Sponsoring Entity
>
>   *
>
>     The Apache Incubator
>
>
>
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-- 
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation;
http://www.opensource.lk/
Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/

Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/

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