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Status: Open
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
I have spoken with chl501 who worked on the failure detector in Hama (https://github.com/apache/hama/tree/master/core/src/main/java/org/apache/hama/monitor/fd). I am working on the Gossip podling: http://gossip.incubator.apache.org/. We are wrapping up our first release. I am interested in evangelizing Gossip and I believe the is a fit here.
I can see the FD code inside Hama has not been touched in a while. It is great that the code is stable!
Hama could leverage apache-gossip. This would shrink the size and complexity of the Hama codevbase. Also Hama would benefit from what will hopefully be more frequent updates and features coming in incubator-gossip.
I understand that Hama is a large, established, complex project. I would like to attempt to run Hama using incubator-gossip. I would make the choice a user configuration until we establish that incubator-gossip is reliable for Hama and the committers are comfortable.
I wanted to feel out the Hama community and see if this proposal is something you are interested in before I dig into the specifcs