> Today, we are proud to donate Heron to the Apache Incubator where the community will continue to grow and thrive under the guidance of the Apache Software Foundation<p>Why do I keep reading this as "Today, we are proud to donate Mittens the cat to the local animal shelter where the kitty will continue to grow and thrive under the guidance of the SPCA."
Given the perception (fair or not) that the ASF is the place that large projects go to die, I'd like to know why this donation is a good fit for the ASF and what resources are in place to help it flourish there.
My company is considering "upgrading" our Storm topologies to Heron. Given that Storm is Heron's predecessor, and Storm itself is maintained by the ASF, I wonder what this donation means for Heron.<p>p.s. does anybody have experience with Dhalion, Heron's autoscaling thing (is it a module? or a plugin, idk). All I could find on it was a research paper and a barren github repository; how do you use this thing?