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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:03:33 -0800
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Accept Wave into the incubator
Thread-Topic: [VOTE] Accept Wave into the incubator
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+1 (binding).

Cheers,
Chris

On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Dan Peterson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please vote on the acceptance of Wave into the Apache incubator.
>
> The proposal is available at: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WavePropos=
al
> (for your convenience, a snapshot is also copied below)
>
> The earlier discussion thread can be found at:
> http://apache.markmail.org/message/3ebtccdxvipp2732?q=3Dgeneral%40incubat=
or.apache.org+list:org.apache.incubator.general+order:date-backward&page=3D=
2
>
> The vote options:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept Wave for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for 72 hours.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan
>
> Apache Wave Proposal (Apache Incubator)
>
> =3D Abstract =3D
>
> Apache Wave is the project where wave technology is developed at Apache.
> Wave in a Box (WIAB) is the name of the main product at the moment, which=
 is
> a server that hosts and federates waves, supports extensive APIs, and
> provides a rich web client. This project also includes an implementation =
of
> the Wave Federation protocol, to enable federated collaboration systems
> (such as multiple interoperable Wave In a Box instances).
>
> =3D Proposal =3D
>
> A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communicatio=
n.
> It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
>
> WIAB is a server that hosts waves. The best analogy for this is a mail
> server with a web client. WIAB is comprised of a few high-level component=
s:
> the client and the server. They have the following major functionality
> (though this is not an exhaustive list):
>
> * Client
>  *A dynamic web client for users to create, edit, and search waves. Users
> can access this client by directly visiting the server in a browser.
>  * Gadgets provide the ability to insert, view, and modify the UI --
> exposing the Wave Gadgets API (
> http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/gadgets/guide.html)
>  * A console client that can create and edit waves via a command-line-lik=
e
> interface.
> * Server
>  * Hosts and stores waves. WIAB comes with a default storage mechanism. T=
he
> administrators of the server may configure it to use alternative storage
> mechanisms.
>  * Indexing, allowing for searching the waves a user has access to.
>  * Basic authentication, configurable to delegate to other systems.
>  * Federation, allowing separate Wave in a Box servers to communicate wit=
h
> each other using the Wave Federation Protocol (
> http://www.waveprotocol.org/federation).
>  * Robots, using the Wave Robots API, (
> http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/) may interact with wa=
ves
> on a WIAB instance.
>
> =3D Background =3D
>
> Wave expresses a new metaphor for communication: hosted conversations. Th=
is
> was created by Lars and Jens Rasmussen after observation of people's use =
of
> many separate forms of communication to get something done, e.g, email,
> chat, docs, blogs, twitter, etc.
>
> The vision has always been to better the way people communicate and
> collaborate. Building open protocols and sharing code available in an ope=
n
> and free way is a critical part of that vision. Anyone should be able to
> bring up their own wave server and communicate with others (much like SMT=
P).
>
> We hope this project will allow everyone to easily gain the benefits of W=
ave
> with a standard implementation of Wave =96 in a box.
>
> =3D Rationale =3D
>
> Wave has shown it excels at small group collaboration when hosted by Goog=
le.
> Although Wave will not continue as a standalone Google product, there is =
a
> lot of interest from many organizations in both running Wave and building
> upon the technology for new products.
>
> We are confident that with the community-centric development environment
> fostered by the Apache Software Foundation, WIAB will thrive.
>
> =3D Initial Goals =3D
>
> The initial goals of the project are:
>
> 1.  To migrate the codebase from code.google.com and integrate the projec=
t
> with the ASF infrastructure (issue management, build, project site, etc).
> 1.  To quickly reach a state where it is possible to continue the
> development of the Wave In a Box implementation under the ASF project.
> 1.  To add new committers to the project and grow the community in "The
> Apache Way".
>
> =3D Current Status =3D
>
> The open source Wave in a Box project has existed in various forms for
> approximately 16 months (starting out life as the FedOne open source
> project).
>
> FedOne began in July 2009 in order to accelerate adoption of the wave
> federation protocol, and serve as a proof of concept that a non-Google
> implementation of the wave federation protocol could interoperate with th=
e
> Google production instance. It worked. FedOne's existence lead to a
> prototype by Novell that demonstrated federation between Google Wave and
> Novell Pulse (now known as Vibe). In addition, in May of 2010, SAP unveil=
ed
> a prototype version of SAP StreamWork that federated with both Novell Pul=
se
> and Google Wave. All three systems interoperated, sharing real-time state=
,
> and gadget updates. In May 2010 Google released significantly more code
> (including the cross-browser rich text editor) to connect with other
> components that were built from scratch, resulting in a simple web client=
.
>
> The project has grown over the last year to include many Google and
> non-Google contributions.  The project has picked up steam in recent mont=
hs
> as the direction of the standalone Google Wave product has shifted.  At t=
his
> time the Wave in a Box project enjoys very active development, with new
> features and functionality being added almost daily. The first Wave Proto=
col
> Summit was recently held and included developers from a variety of
> countries, companies, and organizations.
>
> The code base is a mixture of mature core code from Google Wave, and
> somewhat immature integration code forming WIAB. WIAB is quickly becoming
> highly functional and is already in a very "demoable" state.  The
> development mailing lists are  very active indicating wide community
> support.  We recognize that now is a good time to migrate to the Apache
> Foundation while the codebase and community is a manageable size.  Assumi=
ng
> the current momentum continues, we expect strong growth in the code and
> community in the near future.
>
> =3D=3D Meritocracy =3D=3D
>
> The initial set of committers includes many Google employees, and there i=
s
> an active and growing community outside Google contributing to WIAB alrea=
dy
> today. Google culture itself encourages meritocracy, and the community ha=
s
> always grown =96 and will continue to grow =96 in this fashion.
>
> As shown by the initial committers list below, several members from outsi=
de
> of Google have already demonstrated interest, skill, and commitment to
> contributing to the project.  These individuals have been recognized on
> those merits by the initial committers.  Their selection as the first wav=
e
> of new committers is a sign of the burgeoning meritocracy.
>
> =3D=3D Community =3D=3D
>
> Wave currently has a healthy community around waveprotocol.org, with
> conversations hosted at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol. We
> plan to move this community to the Apache Software Foundation incubator.
>
> =3D=3D Core Developers =3D=3D
>
> The initial committers comes from a variety of backgrounds and includes m=
any
> from Google. There are a few existing Apache committers amongst this init=
ial
> group.  We anticipate early future committers coming from places like
> Novell, SAP, companies related to the US Navy's usage of wave, startups i=
n
> the wave ecosystem, and many independent individuals.
>
> =3D=3D Alignment =3D=3D
>
> The developers of WIAB want to work with the Apache Software Foundation
> because Apache has proven to provide a strong foundation with good
> infrastructure and support for developing projects in an open community. =
 As
> WIAB continues to grow, the community will look to both reuse available
> Apache projects as well as look for opportunities to contribute back to t=
he
> larger Apache community.
>
> =3D Known Risks =3D
>
> =3D=3D Orphaned products =3D=3D
>
> Wave is a new means for communication, and thus it is still maturing. Whi=
le
> the initial implementation (Google Wave) did not gain sufficient traction
> for it to continue as a standalone Google product, there are other relate=
d
> projects (e.g. Novell Vibe, SAP StreamWork), and several startups in the
> space that are continuing to build on the technology. In addition, the US
> Navy has contracted with four companies as part of evaluating using wave
> technology on every ship. The community itself is still growing, with
> several new contributors recently added.
>
> =3D=3D Inexperience with Open Source =3D=3D
>
> The initial committers have varying degrees of experience with open sourc=
e
> projects. Many from the community are familiar with open source.
>
> =3D=3D Homogeneous Developers =3D=3D
>
> The initial set of developers does include many from Google. However, the
> project has accepted many patches from independent individuals, and some
> have already gained committership. Several companies have expressed inter=
est
> and forty individuals participated in the Wave Summit.
>
> =3D=3D Reliance on Salaried Developers =3D=3D
>
> Following Google's change of focus for Wave in August, some of Wave's Goo=
gle
> developers have chosen to continue working on Wave, but it is imperative
> that we continue to grow the community larger in the coming months.
>
> =3D=3D Relationships with Other Apache Products =3D=3D
>
> We currently use the following libraries from Apache
> * Commons CLI
> * Commons Codec
> * Commons HttpClient
> * Commons Logging
> * Velocity
> * Ant
>
> We've also contributed the Wave Gadget implementation into the Apache
> Shindig project.
>
> =3D Documentation =3D
>
> Entry point for documentation of all the specs and designs.
> http://waveprotocol.org/
>
> Wave Robots API
> http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/
>
> Wave Gadgets API
> http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/gadgets/guide.html
>
> =3D Initial Source =3D
>
> The initial source will come from
> http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/source/browse/. This consists of t=
he
> Java code necessary for the client and server. These are already open sou=
rce
> repositories licensed under the Apache Public License.
>
> =3D Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan =3D
>
> Beginning with the initial unveiling, Google published a liberal patent
> license:
>
> Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Google and its
> affiliates hereby grant to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
> no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this License)
> patent license for patents necessarily infringed by implementation of thi=
s
> specification. If you institute patent litigation against any entity
> (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the
> implementation of the specification constitutes direct or contributory
> patent infringement, then any patent licenses for the specification grant=
ed
> to you under this License shall terminate as of the date such litigation =
is
> filed.
>
> http://www.waveprotocol.org/patent-license
>
> =3D=3D Trademarks =3D=3D
>
> Google retains all rights to the trademarks "GOOGLE WAVE" and the wave
> design logo, neither of which will be used in the Apache Wave project.
>
> =3D External Dependencies =3D
>
> In addition to the previously mentioned Apache dependencies, the initial
> code relies on the following libraries that have Apache compatible licens=
es:
>
> antlr, aopalliance, asm, bouncycastle, cglib, dom4j, emma, gson, guava,
> guice, gwt, gxp, hamcrest, jackson, jdom, jetty, jline, jmock, joda_time,
> jsr305, junit, libidn, mockito, mongo-driver, oauth, protobuf,
> protobuf-format-java, protostuff, stringtemplate, websocket, whack, xpp3
>
> =3D Cryptography =3D
>
> We use standard crypto library methods available in java.security.*. Wave
> federation plans to uses encryption for sending deltas to remote Wave
> servers.
>
> =3D Required Resources =3D
>
> =3D=3D  Mailing lists =3D=3D
>
> * wave-dev
> * wave-commits
> * wave-private
>
> It is possible that if the project does grown to include many sub project
> that we would split the mailing list up by sub project.  Again we have
> flexibility.
>
>
> =3D=3D Subversion Directory =3D=3D
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wave
>
> =3D=3D Issue Tracking =3D=3D
>
> Please help us setup a JIRA instance for both issue tracking and code
> review.
>
> =3D=3D Other Resources =3D=3D
>
> * a wiki (for the sites pages) (
> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/sites.html or a wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/)
> * code review on reviews.apache.org
> * a server to run a dogfood instance
> * continuous build bot
>
> =3D Initial Committers =3D
>
> * Alex North (Google)
> * Anthony Watkins (SESI)
> * Christian Ohler (Google)
> * Dan Danilatos (Google)
> * Dan Peterson (Google) / dpeterson@apache.org
> * David Hearnden (Google)
> * David Wang (Google)
> * Ian Roughley (Novell) / roughley@apache.org
> * James Purser
> * Joseph Gentle
> * Lennard de Rijk
> * Michael MacFadden (Solute)
> * Soren Lassen (Google)
> * Tad Glines
> * Torben Weis (University Duisburg-Essen)
>
> =3D Sponsors =3D
>
> =3D=3D Champion =3D=3D
>
> * Paul Lindner
>
> =3D=3D Nominated Mentors =3D=3D
>
> * Santiago Gala
> * Upayavira
> * Andrus Adamchik
> * Vincent Siveton
> * Ben Laurie
>
> =3D=3D Sponsoring Entity =3D=3D
>
> The Apache Incubator.


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: Chris.Mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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