Hi RJ, Yes, we are going to nominate a maintainer and will ensure Apex related build issues will be resolved.
Thanks, Thomas On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:00 PM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Is there someone who would be willing to take responsibility for > maintaining the Apache Apex packages in Bigtop? > > We generally like to find a maintainer for each package and add them to > our maintainers list. This way we know who to contact if a build fails and > blocks a release. If there is no maintainer (and the build has problems), > we use that as grounds for removing the package from Bigtop. > > Thanks, > RJ > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Thanks for your interest in bigtop and getting apex componentized and >> supported in bigtop. >> >> Some general getting started info on bigtop contributions: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+Contribute >> >> Would start to look at src of the project at a few of the current >> components. >> >> /bigtop/bigtop-packages/src/common >> /bigtop/bigtop-packages/src/deb >> /bigtop/bigtop-packages/src/rpm >> >> That will be the basics of build and packaging. If datatorrent has some >> existing rpm, deb setups can start with that and tweak to conform to bigtop >> practices if needed. >> >> For deploy/config side of things can look at references in: >> >> /bigtop/bigtop-deploy/puppet/modules/* >> >> If you guys don’t have existing puppet resources feel free to ping the >> list and one of a few in the group can help get you guys going with that. >> >> Also take a look at the root .bom file (/bigtop/bigtop.bom) and look at >> how you guys might define apex and some of its possible build dependencies >> (ie: apex requires that hdfs be running underneath it) >> >> After build and packaging going can start to look at some relevant apex >> smoke tests that might already be available and included, some references >> there at: >> >> /bigtop/bigtop-tests/smoke-tests/* >> >> Ping list as you guys dig in with any questions/issues >> >> Nate >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thomas Weise [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:21 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Apache Apex as part of Bigtop >> >> Dear Bigtop community, >> >> I'm member of the Apache Apex (incubating) PPMC and wanted to explore the >> possibility of getting Apex into Bigtop. Our web site is at: >> >> http://apex.incubator.apache.org/ >> >> Apex was originally developed at DataTorrent since 2012 and entered >> incubation last August. >> >> Thanks, >> Thomas >> >> >
