Sounds great, Adam. +1 to releasing early, and often. We have a good opportunity here to release even a developer focused release, and then improve docs with more releases that we do.
Cheers, Chris On 2/15/13 7:54 PM, "Adam Berry" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Adam, >> >> Great work! Do you think it's now time for a first release? Even if it's >> not fully functional, and even if it doesn't support everything you >> mention in paragraph #2 below, it will be a great incremental milestone. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> On 2/11/13 8:29 PM, "Adam Berry" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Hey guys, >> > >> >So first, let me say thanks for the patience as I worked on this. >> > >> >I've split up the original single plugin into a few logical units as we >> >discussed before. I've thrown up the beginnings of a wiki page, >> >http://wiki.apache.org/hdt/HDTGettingStarted with the beginnings of how >> to >> >grab this and work with it. The maven/tycho build support still needs >>to >> >go >> >in, but I should be able to get to that this week. >> > >> >So now we are ready to start attacking multi hadoop version support! We >> >need multi version clients for launching jobs on hadoop clusters, also >>for >> >interacting with hdfs on the same clusters, those will need the >>connectors >> >that we discussed before. The other spot is in the jars that get that >> >added >> >to the classpath for MapReduce projects. >> > >> >Although the plugins are logically split, some of the classes in them >>need >> >some more work to better split the work between core and ui, so keeping >> >refactoring in mind as would be good I think. For now, the Hadoop >>imports >> >are satisfied using the org.apache.hadoop.eclipse plugin, which bundles >> >Hadoop 1.0.4. >> > >> >I've added some JIRAs as trackers for this feature work, so feel free >>to >> >jump in to the source and chime in! >> > >> >Cheers, >> >Adam >> >> Hey guys, > >sorry for the delay in responding, I was struck down by the flu. > >So I'm really not sure here, so comments and thoughts are more than >welcome. > >We can probably make the current set of tools work with 1.0 without too >much trouble, but we would also need some tests and documentation before >release, not necessarily exhaustive, but at least something. Pursuing a >release quickly would likely help to drive interest and momentum for the >tools. > >I think I'm leaning in favor of doing that, gets us used to doing apache >releases, and the other pieces of infrastructure, and would let us get >visible within the hadoop community sooner. > >I believe its still important to start work on the multi version support >as >soon as possible, but I think we can do that in parallel to the release of >some tools that support the 1.0 line. > >So let me know what you guys think, and we'll go from there. > >Cheers, >Adam
