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From: Henry Saputra <henry.saputra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:26:11 -0700
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Subject: [CLOSED] [DISCUSS] Olympian Incubation Proposal
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Thanks to all participating.

Due to response from Datastax legal rep, this proposal at this moment
considered "hostile" fork and hence no longer open for discussion.


- Henry

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Henry Saputra <henry.saputra@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Please find below a proposal for a new incubator podling, Apache Olympian=
,
> formerly Titan.
> Apache Olympian is software designed to support the processing of graphs
> so large that they require storage and computational capacities beyond wh=
at
> a single machine can provide.
>
> This project will be a fork of Titan graph database project (
> https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/) that already come with Apache
> License v2.0.
> The project was created by company called Aurelius and was acquired by
> Datstax.
> Coming to 2016 there has been less activity in the project as the
> original authors are busy with other software development, but there is
> significant interest from the community (see https://groups.google.com
> /forum/#!msg/aureliusgraphs/jEN_7QwVXZ4/mz3gik-FAgAJ)
>
> The community have tried to reaching out to Datastax to donate the
> copyright and trademark of project to ASF but it was not approved.
> Because of that, the community has decided to go to ASF with different
> name: Apache Olympian.
>
> The wiki proposal page is located at this URL:
>
>   https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OlympianProposal
>
> I have also included the current text of that page below.
>
> Looking forward of comments or questions about this proposal.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Henry Saputra
> On behalf of Apache Olympian community
>
>
> =3D Apache Olympian Proposal =3D=3D
>
> =3D=3D Abstract =3D=3D
>
> Olympian (formerly Titan) is software designed to support the processing
> of graphs so large that they require storage and computational capacities
> beyond what a single machine can provide. Scaling graph data processing f=
or
> real time traversals and analytical queries is Olympian=E2=80=99s main be=
nefit.
>
> =3D=3D Proposal =3D=3D
>
> Olympian consists of about 75K of Java code under the Apache 2 license
> <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>. It supports very large
> graphs, with many concurrent transactions and operational graph processin=
g.
> Olympian graphs scale with the number of machines in the cluster. Olympia=
n
> already integrates with a number of Apache projects:
>
>    -
>
>    Provides native support for the popular property graph data model
>    exposed by Apache TinkerPop <http://tinkerpop.apache.org/>.
>    -
>
>    Provides native support for the Gremlin graph traversal language
>    defined by Apache TinkerPop for programming language agnostic connecti=
vity.
>    -
>
>    Provides graph persistence solutions with:
>    -
>
>       Apache Cassandra <http://cassandra.apache.org/>
>       -
>
>       Apache HBase <https://hbase.apache.org/>
>       -
>
>    Provides advanced indexing with:
>    -
>
>       Apache Lucene <https://lucene.apache.org/>
>       -
>
>       Apache Solr <http://lucene.apache.org/solr/>
>       -
>
>    Supports global graph analytics and batch graph processing through the=
 Apache
>    Hadoop <http://hadoop.apache.org/> framework with processors
>    implemented with:
>    -
>
>       Apache Spark <http://spark.apache.org/>
>       -
>
>       Apache Giraph <http://giraph.apache.org/>
>
>
> Other software Olympian interfaces with includes:
>
>    -
>
>    BerkeleyDB
>    -
>
>    Elasticsearch
>
>
> =3D=3D Background =3D=3D
>
> Marko Rodriguez and Matthias Broecheler, cofounders of the Aurelius graph
> consulting =EF=AC=81rm, developed the Titan distributed graph database sy=
stem and
> made it available under the Apache 2 license in 2012. Marko is also a
> cofounder of the Apache TinkerPop project and the primary developer of th=
e
> Gremlin graph traversal language. Other developers of Titan include Dan
> LaRocque, Stephen Mallette, Daniel Kuppitz, and Pavel Yaskevich. Datastax
> acquired Aurelius in February 2015, prior to the Titan 1.0 release in
> September 2015.
>
> Since Titan became available on GitHub, there have been 4434 commits, 38
> branches, 23 releases, and 35 contributors.  In 2016 there has been less
> activity as the original authors are busy with other software development=
,
> but there is significant interest from the community.
>
> =3D=3D Rationale =3D=3D
>
> (1) There are a number of Apache projects that integrate with Titan.
>
> (2) Apache Atlas (incubating) <http://atlas.incubator.apache.org/>
> packages and ships Titan as an essential component, yet Titan is not part
> of Apache.
>
> (3) There are a number of existing users of Titan who are keen to continu=
e
> to develop the code. These users provide the basis of the community for t=
he
> proposed project.
>
> =3D=3D Initial Goals =3D=3D
>
> The initial goals are as follows:
>
>    -
>
>    Establish the project governance in The Apache Way and broaden the
>    community.
>    -
>
>    Distribute an incubating release aligned with the latest Apache
>    TinkerPop version and prepared in accordance with the Apache release
>    process.
>    -
>
>    Improve the documentation.
>    -
>
>    Add more unit/scenario tests.
>    -
>
>    Contribute functional and performance-related enhancements to the code=
.
>
>
> =3D=3D Current Status =3D=3D
>
> The project will be forked off the existing Titan code base. This code ha=
s
> been available under the Apache 2 License but has not been subject to the
> Apache governance. The proposed project will adhere to Apache=E2=80=99s g=
overnance
> and processes. This is one of the key benefits and reasons for bringing t=
he
> project forward as an incubator candidate.
>
> There are 37 pull requests currently open against Titan, and the last pul=
l
> request was merged in June 2016. During incubation, the community will
> adopt a voting-based approach to review and commit those changes into the
> code base in preparation for the first incubating release.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Meritocracy =3D=3D=3D
>
> The proposed project will adopt the familiar process of progression from
> submitter to contributor to PMC. The community includes active committers
> and PMC members on other Apache projects (e.g. Apache TinkerPop, Apache
> Atlas (incubating), Apache HBase).
>
> =3D=3D=3D Community =3D=3D=3D
>
> There is an active and passionate community of existing Titan users. It i=
s
> believed that this community will continue to grow and to progress. Titan
> is well-designed to support different backends, and the community will
> naturally grow as more backends are written to fit into the Titan
> architecture. Since the Titan 1.0 release, 3 different storage providers
> have become available. Also once an incubation release is made available,
> the community will likely see quick adoption from the Apache TinkerPop us=
er
> base.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Core Developers =3D=3D=3D
>
> The community includes developers from a number of vendors (e.g. Google,
> HortonWorks, IBM, Mindmaps, Classmethod) and users (both academic and
> commercial). It contains two active committers and PMC members from the
> Apache TinkerPop project, one active committer and PPMC member from Apach=
e
> Atlas (incubating), and one committer from Apache HBase. The developers
> represent a good mixture of skills, including expertise with each of the
> supported providers.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Alignment =3D=3D=3D
>
> The proposed project will be used by or integrated with a number of other
> Apache components, including (probably) TinkerPop, Atlas, Hadoop, Spark,
> Cassandra, and HBase. It is logical that the project should also be homed
> within Apache and subject to the governance principles of Apache.
>
> =3D=3D Known Risks =3D=3D
>
> =3D=3D=3D Orphaned products =3D=3D=3D
>
> All the companies and developers associated with academic institutions wh=
o
> are engaged or want to be engaged with Titan are well aware of the open
> source philosophy and the importance of open governance of open source
> products. Hence, we think the risks of Titan being orphaned are minimal.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Inexperience with Open Source =3D=3D=3D
>
> The project is based on an existing open source code base (Titan 1.0) and
> the community consists of developers and vendors who have a history and
> strategy of open development and governance. The initial committers inclu=
de
> committers and PMC members from other Apache projects.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Homogenous Developers =3D=3D=3D
>
> The community consists of geographically-dispersed volunteers from
> academic and a range of commercial organisations. The geographic diversit=
y
> includes North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Reliance on Salaried Developers =3D=3D=3D
>
> Many of the developers are salaried by the vendors in the community, but
> the vendors have publicly stated their support for open systems and whils=
t
> we might expect to see some gradual replacement of members of the
> community, we believe that it will remain stable and viable into the
> future. All members of the community are passionate about the project and
> are likely to contribute outside of =E2=80=98normal working hours=E2=80=
=99.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Relationships with Other Apache Products =3D=3D=3D
>
> The proposed project has dependencies on other Apache projects, including
> Cassandra and HBase, for example. There are Apache projects that depend
> upon the availability of an open, scalable graph database. Apache Atlas i=
s
> an example of such a project. Apache S2Graph (incubating)
> <https://s2graph.incubator.apache.org/> is currently an incubator project
> at Apache, however it does not currently implement the Apache TinkerPop
> interfaces, although it has an open JIRA for that effort.
>
> =3D=3D=3D An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand =3D=3D=3D
>
> Whilst the Apache brand will help to attract developers and consumers to
> the project, it is not for this reason that the proposal is being made. I=
t
> is to align the governance of the project with that of the other componen=
ts
> with which it is commonly used and to benefit from the development
> principles adopted by Apache. In particular, TinkerPop is Titan=E2=80=99s=
 most
> critical component/dependency, one so tight that Titan releases are
> contemporaneous or follow TinkerPop releases.
>
> =3D=3D Documentation =3D=3D
>
> Information on the existing Titan code base can be found at:
> http://titan.thinkaurelius.com/
>
> =3D=3D Initial Source =3D=3D
>
> The initial source will be based off a fork of the Titan code base. The
> latter can be found at: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan. The fork
> to be used as the base is from: https://github.com/pluradj/titan
>
> =3D=3D Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan =3D=3D
>
> Since Datastax owns the copyright and trademark for Titan, when the
> proposal is accepted to the ASF Incubator, the community will choose a
> different name. It is proposed that Titan will enter incubation with the
> name Olympian. The community will finalize and document the name research
> during incubation. Individuals in the community have discussed the
> possibility of a software grant from Datastax, but Datastax was not
> interested in donating code or brand to the ASF. When asked if they would
> block others taking it to Apache they did not respond.
>
> =3D=3D External Dependencies =3D=3D
>
> Titan has the following external dependencies:
>
> * Java 1.8
>
> * Apache Maven 3.0.5 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * JUnit 4.12 (EPL)
>
> * MRUnit 1.1.0 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Apache Cassandra (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Jamm (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Metrics 2.1.1 and 3.0.1 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Sesame 2.7.10 (Eclipse Public License Version 1.0)
>
> * slf4j 1.7.5 (MIT)
>
> * Apache HTTPComponents 4.4.1 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Apache Hadoop 1.2.1 & 2.7.1 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Apache HBase (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Jackson 1.9.2 & 2.4.4 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Apache Lucene 4.10.4 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Elasticsearch 1.5.1 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Apache Commons Beanutils 1.7.0 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Joda Time 1.6.2 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Google ConcurrentLinkedHashMap (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Antlr 2.7.7 And 3.2 (BSD License)
>
> * ASM 3 & 4 (http://asm.ow2.org/license.html)
>
> * Apache Zookeeper 3.4.6 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Jersey 1.9 (CDDL 1.1 and GPL v2)
>
> * JNA 4.0.0 (LGPL 2.1 and Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Kuali Maven s3 Wagon 1.1.20 (Educational Community License, Version 2.0=
)
>
> * Apache Tomcat Jasper 5.5.23 (Apache 2.0 License)
>
> * Berkeley DB 5.0.73 (Sleepycat License)
>
> Upon acceptance to the incubator, we would begin a thorough analysis of
> all transitive dependencies to verify this information and introduce
> license checking into the build and release process by integrating with
> Apache Rat.  In the case where a dependency has an Apache incompatible
> license, such as Berkeley DB, we will remove or replace it with an
> appropriate alternative.
>
> =3D=3D Cryptography =3D=3D
>
> Titan will support encryption of client-server communication through its
> use of the Apache TinkerPop Gremlin Server.  We do not expect Titan to be=
 a
> controlled export due to its use of encryption.
>
> =3D=3D Required resources =3D=3D
>
> =3D=3D=3D Mailing lists =3D=3D=3D
>
> * private@olympian.incubator.apache.org  (with moderated subscriptions)
>
> * commits@olympian.incubator.apache.org
>
> * dev@olympian.incubator.apache.org
>
> * user@olympian.incubator.apache.org
>
> =3D=3D=3D Git Repository =3D=3D=3D
>
> The team would like to use git for source control. We request a writable
> git repo https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-olympian.git,
> and mirroring to be set up to GitHub through INFRA. We also request
> configuration for continuous integration with Travis CI.
>
> =3D=3D=3D Issue Tracking =3D=3D=3D
>
> Titan currently uses the GitHub issue tracker and the team would like to
> migrate all of these issues to the Apache JIRA.
>
> =3D=3D Initial Committers =3D=3D
>
> Dylan Bethune-Waddell - dylan.bethune.waddell@mail.utoronto.ca
>
> Mathias Bogaert - mathias.bogaert@gmail.com
>
> Misha Brukman - mbrukman@google.com
>
> Felix Chapman - felix@mindmaps.io
>
> Sheldon Hall - sheldon@mindmaps.io
>
> Jing Chen (Jerry) He - jerryjch@apache.org
>
> Madhan Neethiraj - mneethiraj@hortonworks.com
>
> Alexander Patrikalakis - amcp@me.com
>
> Jason Plurad - pluradj@apache.org
>
> Suma Shivaprasad - sumasai@apache.org <sumasa@apache.org>
>
> Lindsay Smith - lindsaysmith@google.com
>
> Filipe Teixeira - fppintoteixeira@gmail.com
>
> Ted Wilmes - twilmes@apache.org
>
> =3D=3D Affiliations =3D=3D
>
> Dylan Bethune-Waddell - Jurisica Lab, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UH=
N
>
> Mathias Bogaert - Independent Contractor
>
> Misha Brukman - Google
>
> Felix Chapman - Mindmaps
>
> Sheldon Hall - Mindmaps
>
> Jing Chen (Jerry) He - IBM
>
> Madhan Neethiraj - HortonWorks
>
> Alexander Patrikalakis - Classmethod, Inc.
>
> Jason Plurad - IBM
>
> Suma Shivaprasad - HortonWorks
>
> Lindsay Smith - Google
>
> Filipe Teixeira - Mindmaps
>
> Ted Wilmes - Expero Inc.
>
> =3D=3D Sponsors =3D=3D
>
> =3D=3D=3D Champion =3D=3D=3D
>
> Henry Saputra - hsaputra@apache.org
>
> =3D=3D=3D Nominated Mentors =3D=3D=3D
>
> Alan Gates - gates@apache.org
>
> P. Taylor Goetz - ptgoetz@apache.org
>
> Henry Saputra - hsaputra@apache.org
>
> Michael Stack - stack@apache.org
>
> =3D=3D=3D Sponsoring Entity =3D=3D=3D
>
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>
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