+1 to all of this There are existing JIRAs that you can assign / add to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-727 Thanks! On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:26 AM, Chinmay Kolhatkar <chin...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Community, > > I want to propose following improvements for apex-core build and related > steps: > > 1. Most (probably all of the open source project) has the a binary release > package of the software and not just the source release package. Currently > we have only source package. Luckily there are few places (outside of > apache apex) where binary packages of apex has been created for different > purposes : https://github.com/atrato/apex-cli-package & > https://github.com/apache/bigtop) > > Proposal here is generate this binary release package as a part of build > process of apex-core. > > > 2. Currently, the docker build that is being created for apex is built one > of my personal repository (https://github.com/chinmaykolhatkar/docker-pool > ). > While I don't mind hosting the content (Dockerfile etc...) in my > repository, I believe it make sense to host this in apex-core repository. > This way, there is a possibility of using docker github triggers for > building the docker image from release branches. > > > 3. Currently the docker build uses hadoop and apex specific packages from > bigtop deb repo & CI. (See > https://github.com/chinmaykolhatkar/docker-pool/ > blob/master/apex/ubuntu/app/setup.sh > for more details) > While use of hadoop packages from bigtop repo is fine, we also need to rely > on bigtop contribution to update apex component and then build from bigtop > CI for getting apex.deb package. Basically our docker image generation > process gets blocked on bigtop source update to generate the updated apex > deb. > As we technically don't need to depend on bigtop to generate the apex > binary, the proposal here is to generate binary package during build > process (point 1) and use that during docker image build process instead of > using the ready made deb package from bigtop CI. > > > I understand that there are multiple items being mention in a single mail > but they seem related hence the mail. > > Please let me know your opinion on above items. > > Thanks, > Chinmay. >
