We really should call these "sub-projects" for clarification. -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/27/13, 6:14 PM, Eric Whyne wrote: >> >> 3b. After some discussion on our end, it's inclusion in the contrib where >> the pull request places it is optimal for it's current state. It will make >> an R interface to accumulo part of the core distribution. This could >> potentially increase adoption of accumulo across more of the data science >> community, I know it would intrigue us from a corporate standpoint... >> that's why it was written. > > > When we say 'contrib', we don't actually mean the 'contrib' directory in the > core of Accumulo. Look at the first four repos on [1] (bsp, pig, > instamo-archetype and the wikisearch). When we say "contrib repository", a > brand new repository here is where we would see raccumulo fitting in. > > Despite this code being strongly tied to Accumulo, Accumulo is not strongly > tied to it. That said, I'm still open to help you get raccumulo included > underneath the Accumulo "umbrella" which will give anyone providing back a > way to build up merit and recognition among the community (so we can get to > a point where all interested parties can manage it themselves). > > I'll go ahead and contact general@incubator to see about any potential > licensing issues due to R's GPL-ness and see what other guidance they might > have about importing the code. > > - Josh > > [1] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf
