Hi! in preparation for the Bigtop 0.5.0 release I've cut a release branch and kicked the first build from it: http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Releases/job/Bigtop-0.5.0/
It would be extremely helpful if everybody in the Bigtop community could pitch-in with at least a modest amount of testing -- trying the bits on your favorite Linux distro in a pseudo distributed mode, deploying to a small cluster, using our Puppet code -- it all helps and contributes to a robust Bigtop 0.5.0. Hope you all can find a bit of time to take it for a spin. Once I'm done with a few outstanding site/doc/JIRA issues -- I plan to send a formal RC0 annoucement, but there's no reason to wait for it -- just grab the bits and follow the docs: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+install+Hadoop+distribution+from+Bigtop+0.5.0 Thanks, Roman.