Sounds good to me. We have done something similar in past for HiveServer1 vs HiveServer2, ReplicationV1 vs V2 etc .
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've started looking at what will be required to document the new > standalone metastore. I started by reviewing the existing admin guide for > the metastore at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+MetastoreAdmin > > Much of this will need to change for the standalone metastore, as we'll > need to add in information for the standalone case, many configuration > values and tool names have changed (though the old ones still work for > backwards compatibility). I am concerned that if I put all of the changes > in this document it will make it hard to use for people administering Hive > 1 and 2, which is everyone right now and will continue to be a majority for > at least the next year. > > So I propose to add a new page for Hive 3.0, and clearly edit the current > page to say it only applies to Hive 1 and 2 and put in a pointer to the > Hive 3 page. Much of the content of that page will mirror the current one, > which is painful from a maintenance viewpoint; however, it will produce a > more usable set of documentation for our users. > > Seem reasonable? I wanted to check before proceeding as this is not how we > have usually done our documentation. > > Alan.
