I have always interpreted "contrib" as an experimental code which are provided "as is"[1], not fully validated by the main project and possibly has not reached the same maturity as the rest of the project.
It will help us in communicate the maturity of few plugins like hbase, hive and mongo as such while accepting more user contributions say cassandra, couchbase into Drill's code base. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7328852/what-are-apache-contrib-modules On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > Unless we move contrib out of the build (and to a different repo), I'm not > sure what the change really means. Thoughts on this? > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Parth Chandra <pchan...@maprtech.com> > wrote: > > > I'd be in favor of doing this in the 1.2 release cycle. > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Aditya <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Few of the storage plugins like HBase and Hive have matured enough to > be > > > moved out of contrib and into the mainline, probably under > > "exec/storage". > > > > > > If people think that it is time to do that, I can take this up. > > > > > > aditya... > > > > > >
