Hi all, this vote passed with the following result: +1 (binding): Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Bertrand Delacretaz, Sergio Fernandez, Henry Saputra, Taylor Goetz, Jim Jagielski, Suresh Marru, Daniel Kulp, Chris Nauroth, James Taylor, Greg Stein, John D. Ament, Ted Dunning, Venkatesh Seetharam, Julian Hyde, Edward J. Yoon, Hadrian Zbarcea, Amareshwari Sriramdasu, Olivier Lamy, Tom White, Tom Barber +1 (non binding): Joe Witt, Alexander Bezzubov, Aljoscha Krettek, Krzysztof Sobkowiak, Felix Cheung, Supun Kamburugamuva, Prasanth Jayachandran, Ashish, Markus Geiss, Andreas Neumann, Mayank Bansal, Seshu Adunuthula, Byung-Gon Chun, Gregory Chase, Li Yang, Philip Rhodes, Naresh Agarwal, Johan Edstrom, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Hao Chen, Renaud Richardet, Luke Han, Libin Sun 0: -1: It means 44 +1 (21 binding, 23 non binding), no 0, no -1. Congrats to the Beam (aka dataflow) community and welcome to the ASF ! I will now work with infra to get the resources for the project. Thanks all for your vote. Regards JB On 01/28/2016 03:28 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: > Hi, > > the Beam proposal (initially Dataflow) was proposed last week. > > The complete discussion thread is available here: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201601.mbox/%3CCA%2B%3DKJmvj4wyosNTXVpnsH8PhS7jEyzkZngc682rGgZ3p28L42Q%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > > As reminder the BeamProposal is here: > > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BeamProposal > > Regarding all the great feedbacks we received on the mailing list, we > think it's time to call a vote to accept Beam into the Incubator. > > Please cast your vote to: > [] +1 - accept Apache Beam as a new incubating project > [] 0 - not sure > [] -1 - do not accept the Apache Beam project (because: ...) > > Thanks, > Regards > JB > ---- > ## page was renamed from DataflowProposal > = Apache Beam = > > == Abstract == > > Apache Beam is an open source, unified model and set of > language-specific SDKs for defining and executing data processing > workflows, and also data ingestion and integration flows, supporting > Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) and Domain Specific Languages > (DSLs). Dataflow pipelines simplify the mechanics of large-scale batch > and streaming data processing and can run on a number of runtimes like > Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow (a cloud service). > Beam also brings DSL in different languages, allowing users to easily > implement their data integration processes. > > == Proposal == > > Beam is a simple, flexible, and powerful system for distributed data > processing at any scale. Beam provides a unified programming model, a > software development kit to define and construct data processing > pipelines, and runners to execute Beam pipelines in several runtime > engines, like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Google Cloud Dataflow. Beam > can be used for a variety of streaming or batch data processing goals > including ETL, stream analysis, and aggregate computation. The > underlying programming model for Beam provides MapReduce-like > parallelism, combined with support for powerful data windowing, and > fine-grained correctness control. > > == Background == > > Beam started as a set of Google projects (Google Cloud Dataflow) focused > on making data processing easier, faster, and less costly. The Beam > model is a successor to MapReduce, FlumeJava, and Millwheel inside > Google and is focused on providing a unified solution for batch and > stream processing. These projects on which Beam is based have been > published in several papers made available to the public: > > * MapReduce - http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html > * Dataflow model - http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1792-Akidau.pdf > * FlumeJava - http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35650.html > * MillWheel - http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41378.html > > Beam was designed from the start to provide a portable programming > layer. When you define a data processing pipeline with the Beam model, > you are creating a job which is capable of being processed by any number > of Beam processing engines. Several engines have been developed to run > Beam pipelines in other open source runtimes, including a Beam runner > for Apache Flink and Apache Spark. There is also a “direct runner”, for > execution on the developer machine (mainly for dev/debug purposes). > Another runner allows a Beam program to run on a managed service, Google > Cloud Dataflow, in Google Cloud Platform. The Dataflow Java SDK is > already available on GitHub, and independent from the Google Cloud > Dataflow service. Another Python SDK is currently in active development. > > In this proposal, the Beam SDKs, model, and a set of runners will be > submitted as an OSS project under the ASF. The runners which are a part > of this proposal include those for Spark (from Cloudera), Flink (from > data Artisans), and local development (from Google); the Google Cloud > Dataflow service runner is not included in this proposal. Further > references to Beam will refer to the Dataflow model, SDKs, and runners > which are a part of this proposal (Apache Beam) only. The initial > submission will contain the already-released Java SDK; Google intends to > submit the Python SDK later in the incubation process. The Google Cloud > Dataflow service will continue to be one of many runners for Beam, built > on Google Cloud Platform, to run Beam pipelines. Necessarily, Cloud > Dataflow will develop against the Apache project additions, updates, and > changes. Google Cloud Dataflow will become one user of Apache Beam and > will participate in the project openly and publicly. > > The Beam programming model has been designed with simplicity, > scalability, and speed as key tenants. In the Beam model, you only need > to think about four top-level concepts when constructing your data > processing job: > > * Pipelines - The data processing job made of a series of computations > including input, processing, and output > * PCollections - Bounded (or unbounded) datasets which represent the > input, intermediate and output data in pipelines > * PTransforms - A data processing step in a pipeline in which one or > more PCollections are an input and output > * I/O Sources and Sinks - APIs for reading and writing data which are > the roots and endpoints of the pipeline > > == Rationale == > > With Google Dataflow, Google intended to develop a framework which > allowed developers to be maximally productive in defining the > processing, and then be able to execute the program at various levels of > latency/cost/completeness without re-architecting or re-writing it. This > goal was informed by Google’s past experience developing several > models, frameworks, and tools useful for large-scale and distributed > data processing. While Google has previously published papers describing > some of its technologies, Google decided to take a different approach > with Dataflow. Google open-sourced the SDK and model alongside > commercialization of the idea and ahead of publishing papers on the > topic. As a result, a number of open source runtimes exist for Dataflow, > such as the Apache Flink and Apache Spark runners. > > We believe that submitting Beam as an Apache project will provide an > immediate, worthwhile, and substantial contribution to the open source > community. As an incubating project, we believe Dataflow will have a > better opportunity to provide a meaningful contribution to OSS and also > integrate with other Apache projects. > > In the long term, we believe Beam can be a powerful abstraction layer > for data processing. By providing an abstraction layer for data > pipelines and processing, data workflows can be increasingly portable, > resilient to breaking changes in tooling, and compatible across many > execution engines, runtimes, and open source projects. > > == Initial Goals == > > We are breaking our initial goals into immediate (< 2 months), > short-term (2-4 months), and intermediate-term (> 4 months). > > Our immediate goals include the following: > > * Plan for reconciling the Dataflow Java SDK and various runners into > one project > * Plan for refactoring the existing Java SDK for better extensibility > by SDK and runner writers > * Validating all dependencies are ASL 2.0 or compatible > * Understanding and adapting to the Apache development process > > Our short-term goals include: > > * Moving the newly-merged lists, and build utilities to Apache > * Start refactoring codebase and move code to Apache Git repo > * Continue development of new features, functions, and fixes in the > Dataflow Java SDK, and Dataflow runners > * Cleaning up the Dataflow SDK sources and crafting a roadmap and plan > for how to include new major ideas, modules, and runtimes > * Establishment of easy and clear build/test framework for Dataflow > and associated runtimes; creation of testing, rollback, and validation > policy > * Analysis and design for work needed to make Beam a better data > processing abstraction layer for multiple open source frameworks and > environments > > Finally, we have a number of intermediate-term goals: > > * Roadmapping, planning, and execution of integrations with other OSS > and non-OSS projects/products > * Inclusion of additional SDK for Python, which is under active > development > > == Current Status == > > === Meritocracy === > > Dataflow was initially developed based on ideas from many employees > within Google. As an ASL OSS project on GitHub, the Dataflow SDK has > received contributions from data Artisans, Cloudera Labs, and other > individual developers. As a project under incubation, we are committed > to expanding our effort to build an environment which supports a > meritocracy. We are focused on engaging the community and other related > projects for support and contributions. Moreover, we are committed to > ensure contributors and committers to Dataflow come from a broad mix of > organizations through a merit-based decision process during incubation. > We believe strongly in the Beam model and are committed to growing an > inclusive community of Beam contributors. > > === Community === > > The core of the Dataflow Java SDK has been developed by Google for use > with Google Cloud Dataflow. Google has active community engagement in > the SDK GitHub repository > (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK), on Stack > Overflow > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-cloud-dataflow) and > has had contributions from a number of organizations and indivuduals. > > Everyday, Cloud Dataflow is actively used by a number of organizations > and institutions for batch and stream processing of data. We believe > acceptance will allow us to consolidate existing Dataflow-related work, > grow the Dataflow community, and deepen connections between Dataflow and > other open source projects. > > === Core Developers === > > The core developers for Dataflow and the Dataflow runners are: > > * Frances Perry > * Tyler Akidau > * Davor Bonaci > * Luke Cwik > * Ben Chambers > * Kenn Knowles > * Dan Halperin > * Daniel Mills > * Mark Shields > * Craig Chambers > * Maximilian Michels > * Tom White > * Josh Wills > * Robert Bradshaw > > === Alignment === > > The Beam SDK can be used to create Beam pipelines which can be executed > on Apache Spark or Apache Flink. Beam is also related to other Apache > projects, such as Apache Crunch. We plan on expanding functionality for > Beam runners, support for additional domain specific languages, and > increased portability so Beam is a powerful abstraction layer for data > processing. > > == Known Risks == > > === Orphaned Products === > > The Dataflow SDK is presently used by several organizations, from small > startups to Fortune 100 companies, to construct production pipelines > which are executed in Google Cloud Dataflow. Google has a long-term > commitment to advance the Dataflow SDK; moreover, Dataflow is seeing > increasing interest, development, and adoption from organizations > outside of Google. > > === Inexperience with Open Source === > > Google believes strongly in open source and the exchange of information > to advance new ideas and work. Examples of this commitment are active > OSS projects such as Chromium (https://www.chromium.org) and Kubernetes > (http://kubernetes.io/). With Dataflow, we have tried to be increasingly > open and forward-looking; we have published a paper in the VLDB > conference describing the Dataflow model > (http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1792-Akidau.pdf) and were quick to > release the Dataflow SDK as open source software with the launch of > Cloud Dataflow. Our submission to the Apache Software Foundation is a > logical extension of our commitment to open source software. > > === Homogeneous Developers === > > The majority of committers in this proposal belong to Google due to the > fact that Dataflow has emerged from several internal Google projects. > This proposal also includes committers outside of Google who are > actively involved with other Apache projects, such as Hadoop, Flink, and > Spark. We expect our entry into incubation will allow us to expand the > number of individuals and organizations participating in Dataflow > development. Additionally, separation of the Dataflow SDK from Google > Cloud Dataflow allows us to focus on the open source SDK and model and > do what is best for this project. > > === Reliance on Salaried Developers === > > The Dataflow SDK and Dataflow runners have been developed primarily by > salaried developers supporting the Google Cloud Dataflow project. While > the Dataflow SDK and Cloud Dataflow have been developed by different > teams (and this proposal would reinforce that separation) we expect our > initial set of developers will still primarily be salaried. Contribution > has not been exclusively from salaried developers, however. For example, > the contrib directory of the Dataflow SDK > (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK/tree/master/contrib) > contains items from free-time contributors. Moreover, seperate projects, > such as ScalaFlow (https://github.com/darkjh/scalaflow) have been > created around the Dataflow model and SDK. We expect our reliance on > salaried developers will decrease over time during incubation. > > === Relationship with other Apache products === > > Dataflow directly interoperates with or utilizes several existing Apache > projects. > > * Build > * Apache Maven > * Data I/O, Libraries > * Apache Avro > * Apache Commons > * Dataflow runners > * Apache Flink > * Apache Spark > > Beam when used in batch mode shares similarities with Apache Crunch; > however, Beam is focused on a model, SDK, and abstraction layer beyond > Spark and Hadoop (MapReduce.) One key goal of Beam is to provide an > intermediate abstraction layer which can easily be implemented and > utilized across several different processing frameworks. > > === An excessive fascination with the Apache brand === > > With this proposal we are not seeking attention or publicity. Rather, we > firmly believe in the Beam model, SDK, and the ability to make Beam a > powerful yet simple framework for data processing. While the Dataflow > SDK and model have been open source, we believe putting code on GitHub > can only go so far. We see the Apache community, processes, and mission > as critical for ensuring the Beam SDK and model are truly > community-driven, positively impactful, and innovative open source > software. While Google has taken a number of steps to advance its > various open source projects, we believe Beam is a great fit for the > Apache Software Foundation due to its focus on data processing and its > relationships to existing ASF projects. > > == Documentation == > > The following documentation is relevant to this proposal. Relevant > portion of the documentation will be contributed to the Apache Beam > project. > > * Dataflow website: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow > * Dataflow programming model: > https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/model/programming-model > * Codebases > * Dataflow Java SDK: > https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK > * Flink Dataflow runner: https://github.com/dataArtisans/flink-dataflow > * Spark Dataflow runner: https://github.com/cloudera/spark-dataflow > * Dataflow Java SDK issue tracker: > https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK/issues > * google-cloud-dataflow tag on Stack Overflow: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-cloud-dataflow > > == Initial Source == > > The initial source for Beam which we will submit to the Apache > Foundation will include several related projects which are currently > hosted on the GitHub repositories: > > * Dataflow Java SDK > (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK) > * Flink Dataflow runner (https://github.com/dataArtisans/flink-dataflow) > * Spark Dataflow runner (https://github.com/cloudera/spark-dataflow) > > These projects have always been Apache 2.0 licensed. We intend to bundle > all of these repositories since they are all complimentary and should be > maintained in one project. Prior to our submission, we will combine all > of these projects into a new git repository. > > == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan == > > The source for the Dataflow SDK and the three runners (Spark, Flink, > Google Cloud Dataflow) are already licensed under an Apache 2 license. > > * Dataflow SDK - > https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK/blob/master/LICENSE > * Flink runner - > https://github.com/dataArtisans/flink-dataflow/blob/master/LICENSE > * Spark runner - > https://github.com/cloudera/spark-dataflow/blob/master/LICENSE > > Contributors to the Dataflow SDK have also signed the Google Individual > Contributor License Agreement > (https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual) in order to > contribute to the project. > > With respect to trademark rights, Google does not hold a trademark on > the phrase “Dataflow.” Based on feedback and guidance we receive during > the incubation process, we are open to renaming the project if necessary > for trademark or other concerns. > > == External Dependencies == > > All external dependencies are licensed under an Apache 2.0 or > Apache-compatible license. As we grow the Beam community we will > configure our build process to require and validate all contributions > and dependencies are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license or are under > an Apache-compatible license. > > == Required Resources == > > === Mailing Lists === > > We currently use a mix of mailing lists. We will migrate our existing > mailing lists to the following: > > * dev@beam.incubator.apache.org > * user@beam.incubator.apache.org > * private@beam.incubator.apache.org > * commits@beam.incubator.apache.org > > === Source Control === > > The Dataflow team currently uses Git and would like to continue to do > so. We request a Git repository for Beam with mirroring to GitHub enabled. > > * https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-beam.git > > === Issue Tracking === > > We request the creation of an Apache-hosted JIRA. The Dataflow project > is currently using both a public GitHub issue tracker and internal > Google issue tracking. We will migrate and combine from these two > sources to the Apache JIRA. > > * Jira ID: BEAM > > == Initial Committers == > > * Aljoscha Krettek [aljoscha@apache.org] > * Amit Sela [amitsela33@gmail.com] > * Ben Chambers [bchambers@google.com] > * Craig Chambers [chambers@google.com] > * Dan Halperin [dhalperi@google.com] > * Davor Bonaci [davor@google.com] > * Frances Perry [fjp@google.com] > * James Malone [jamesmalone@google.com] > * Jean-Baptiste Onofré [jbonofre@apache.org] > * Josh Wills [jwills@apache.org] > * Kostas Tzoumas [kostas@data-artisans.com] > * Kenneth Knowles [klk@google.com] > * Luke Cwik [lcwik@google.com] > * Maximilian Michels [mxm@apache.org] > * Stephan Ewen [stephan@data-artisans.com] > * Tom White [tom@cloudera.com] > * Tyler Akidau [takidau@google.com] > * Robert Bradshaw [robertwb@google.com] > > == Additional Interested Contributors == > > * Debo Dutta [dedutta@cisco.com] > * Henry Saputra [hsaputra@apache.org] > * Taylor Goetz [ptgoetz@gmail.com] > * James Carman [james@carmanconsulting.com] > * Joe Witt [joewitt@apache.org] > * Vaibhav Gumashta [vgumashta@hortonworks.com] > * Prasanth Jayachandran [pjayachandran@hortonworks.com] > * Johan Edstrom [seijoed@gmail.com] > * Hugo Louro [hmclouro@gmail.com] > * Krzysztof Sobkowiak [krzys.sobkowiak@gmail.com] > * Jeff Genender [jgenender@apache.org] > * Edward J. Yoon [edward.yoon@samsung.com] > * Hao Chen [hao@apache.org] > * Byung-Gon Chun [bgchun@gmail.com] > * Charitha Elvitigala [charithcc@apache.org] > * Alexander Bezzubov [bzz@apache.org] > * Tsuyoshi Ozawa [ozawa@apache.org] > * Mayank Bansal [mabansal@gmail.com] > * Supun Kamburugamuve [supun@apache.org] > * Matthias Wessendorf [matzew@apache.org] > * Felix Cheung [felixcheung@apache.org] > * Ajay Yadava [ajay.yadav@inmobi.com] > * Liang Chen [chenliang613@huawei.com] > * Renaud Richardet [renaud (at) apache (dot) org] > * Bakey Pan [bakey1985@gmail.com] > * Andreas Neumann [anew@apache.org] > * Suresh Marru [smarru@apache.org] > * Hadrian Zbarcea [hzbarcea@gmail.com] > > == Affiliations == > > The initial committers are from six organizations. Google developed > Dataflow and the Dataflow SDK, data Artisans developed the Flink runner, > and Cloudera (Labs) developed the Spark runner. > > * Cloudera > * Tom White > * Data Artisans > * Aljoscha Krettek > * Kostas Tzoumas > * Maximilian Michels > * Stephan Ewen > * Google > * Ben Chambers > * Dan Halperin > * Davor Bonaci > * Frances Perry > * James Malone > * Kenneth Knowles > * Luke Cwik > * Tyler Akidau > * Robert Bradshaw > * PayPal > * Amit Sela > * Slack > * Josh Wills > * Talend > * Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > == Sponsors == > > === Champion === > > * Jean-Baptiste Onofre [jbonofre@apache.org] > > === Nominated Mentors === > > * Jean-Baptiste Onofre [jbonofre@apache.org] > * Jim Jagielski [jim@apache.org] > * Venkatesh Seetharam [venkatesh@apache.org] > * Bertrand Delacretaz [bdelacretaz@apache.org] > * Ted Dunning [tdunning@apache.org] > > === Sponsoring Entity === > > The Apache Incubator > ---- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org > -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbonofre@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org