号外：thrift要加入Apache了
2007-12-20 10:24:54
下面是facebook的人讨论的邮件：
We’re consideringmoving Thrift into the Apache Incubator, which is basically the entrypoint for Apache software projects:
There are anumber of reasonsto do this, but the main drivingfactors are:
1/ Clear up anygovernanceconcerns in thecommunity around Facebook being thesole ownerof Thrift
2/ Enable tighter integrationwith other Apache projects(i.e. HBase/Hadoopcannot really use Thrift if it’s outsideof Apache)
3/ Open access to thetrunk for outside committers, etc.
Some of the potentialconcerns are:
1/ Overhead incurredby Apache processes, might slow down developmentspeedor ability to make tricky changes
2/ Risk of dilution of somecore Thrift values:
a/ staying super-lightweight, avoiding feature creep
b/ mindfully choosing whento err on theside of dumb but faster staticconstructs over oh-so-elegant butslowerdynamic constructs
We could make these lists much longer,but I think this is a sufficientsummary.
It looks to us likethe potentialbenefitsoutweigh theconcerns here, but we’dlike to heareveryone’s opinions on this, so let us know what you think – Reply-to-All is definitely encouraged.