That first post was intended for the Fedora developer list. Apologies for sending to the wrong list.
If anybody is curious, it seems the Fedora community support around Hadoop and Big Data is really dying... the packager for Flume and HTrace has abandoned their efforts to package for Fedora, and now it looks like the Hadoop package maintainer abandoned Hadoop, leaving Accumulo with unsatisfied dependencies. This is actually kind of a sad state of affairs, because better packaging downstream could really help users, and expose more ways to improve the upstream products. As it stands, I think there is a disconnect between the upstream communities and the downstream packagers in the Big Data space which includes Accumulo. I would love to see more interest in better packaging for downstream users through these existing downstream packager communities (Homebrew, Fedora, Debian, EPEL, Ubuntu, etc.), and I would love to see more volunteers come from these downstream communities to make improvements upstream. As an upstream community, I believe the responsibility is for us to reach down first, rather than wait for them to come to us. I've tried to do that within Fedora, with the hope that others would follow for the downstream communities they care about. Unfortunately, things haven't turned out how I'd have preferred, but I'm still hopeful. If there is anybody interested in downstream community packaging, let me know if I can help you get started. On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:28 PM Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Sorry, wrong list. > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:20 PM Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > >> So, it would seem at some point, without me noticing (certainly my fault, >> for not paying attention enough), the Hadoop packages got orphaned and/or >> retired? in Fedora. >> >> This is a big problem for me, because the main package I work on is >> dependent upon Hadoop. >> >> What's the state of Hadoop in Fedora these days? Are there packaging >> problems? Not enough support from upstream Apache community? Missing >> dependencies in Fedora? Not enough time to work on it? No interest from >> users? >> >> Whatever the issue is... I'd like to help wherever I can... I'd like to >> keep this stuff going. >> >
