Hi All On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 14:11 -0700, Andrew Bayer wrote: > Given that a bunch of us on the project are in the Bay Area, would > there be > interest in actually meeting up in person to start figuring out what > we want > to do with Bigtop going forward? Cloudera should be able to host. If > there > is interest, it'd be great if we could meet up fairly soon, I think.
As I won't be able to make the meeting later today here are a few of my
thoughts on what I would like to see from Bigtop going forwards;
apologies in advance if this is a little Ubuntu centric...
1) Standardized set of reference platforms
So at the moment the website states 'Ubuntu 10.10, CentOS 5 and openSUSE
11.4'. I can't speak authoritatively for CentOS or openSUSE but from an
Ubuntu perspective having reference packages from the Bigtop suite for
the following pattern of releases makes sense:
a) Current and Previous Long Term Support releases - currently
Hardy and Lucid; this allows folks using bigtop on these
releases of Ubuntu (every two years) to have a good support and
upgrade story.
b) Current and Previous Interim/LTS releases - currently Natty
and Maverick - but should shift to Oneiric and Natty once the
next Ubuntu release is out of the door. Most people who don't
use LTS releases tend to upgrade more regularly so maintaining
more than that does not make sense - so having a good upgrade
path is important.
Obviously where this overlaps with an LTS we can reduce the number of
reference platforms.
Adopting such a policy may mean we need to consider how packaging is
maintained for different releases of a platform.
2) Alternative architectures
ARM on server is getting alot of attention ATM even though 'real'
hardware is not currently in production - this is probably just one
example but maybe we should give consideration to testing Bigtop on non-
x86 architectures as well.
3) Published Packages
For the reference platforms and architectures that we build for/test
should we publish the resulting package artefacts officially?
Anyway - that was just a few of the things I had swilling around in my
head.
Hope that todays meeting is productive (and that I can join the next
one!).
Cheers
James
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James Page
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Team
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