Apache Flume

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

Issues before graduation

• Migrate mailing lists from Cloudera infrastructure to Apache mailing lists.
• Create Flume web site.
• Make an incubating release.
• Grow the community size and diversity.
• Licensing and trademark issues.

Community

• Decided on RTC with 3 day timeout for committers.

• Mailing lists:
  • flume-dev@incubator is nearly fully active, pending code import.

Project developments

• Initial inquiry into trademark status.