I was about to say the same. I think Apache is more suitable for Java ecosystem components than more fundamental things like programing languages(Rust/Go etc) or databases.
I'm a little annoyed to have to be worrying about upgrading now, but there apparently are worse organizational structures for supporting an OSS project than a hands off non profit.
http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/getting-started...
./configure --without-java
And then build mesos without java support.