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From: "Tzoumas, Kostas" <kostas.tzoumas@tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Stratosphere
Thread-Topic: [PROPOSAL] Stratosphere
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:57:49 +0000
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On 31 Mar 2014, at 21:47, Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Alan Gates <gates@hortonworks.com> wrot=
e:
>> I would like to propose Stratosphere as an Apache Incubator project.
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> I've reviewed the proposal and it looks strong to me.  The description of=
 the
> transition to a more publicly accessible project (moving from internal gi=
t to
> github, etc) seems to indicate that many challenges of incubation are pro=
perly
> understood.

Thank you. We are obviously very excited about this.

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> The current stratosphere-users list is nascent:
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>    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/stratosphere-users
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> Perhaps consider starting with only a dev@ list to begin with, especially
> since diversifying the currently homogenous committer list is a significa=
nt
> task.
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>    http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MailingListOptions

Right: we decided to remove all public links to the users mailing list, kee=
ping only the dev list for the exact reasons Marvin states. We have not del=
eted the users mailing list in case someone follows the occasional old link=
, be we currently redirect (manually) all emails to the dev list.

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> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunning@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <runseb@gmail.com>w=
rote:
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>>> Maybe 'stratosphere' is too generic to be able to get trademarks
>>> established down the road.
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>> That is a significant issue that will need to dealt with during incubati=
on.
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>> Good trademarks are very difficult to come up with.
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> "Stratosphere" is also uncomfortably close to "Stratos".
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> The sooner that this can be considered the better.

I agree, and, as per Ted=92s email, we would like to resolve the name issue=
 as soon as possible during the incubation phase.=20

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> Marvin Humphrey
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