I like the idea of Hcatalog becoming a Hive sub-project. The enhancements/bugs in the serde/metastore areas can indirectly benefit the hive community, and it will be easier for the fix to be in one place. Having said that, I don't see serde/metastore moving out of hive into a separate component. Things are tied too closely together. I am assuming that no new committers would be automatically added to Hive as part of this, and both Hive and HCatalog will continue to have its own committers.
Thanks, -namit On 11/3/12 2:22 AM, "Alan Gates" <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >Hello Hive community. It is time for HCatalog to graduate from the >Apache Incubator. Given the heavy dependence of HCatalog on Hive the >HCatalog community agreed it made sense to explore graduating from the >Incubator to become a subproject of Hive (see >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/201209.mb >ox/%3C08C40723-8D4D-48EB-942B-8EE4327DD84A%40hortonworks.com%3E and >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/201210.mb >ox/%3CCABN7xTCRM5wXGgJKEko0PmqDXhuAYpK%2BD-H57T29zcSGhkwGQw%40mail.gmail.c >om%3E ). To help both communities understand what HCatalog is and hopes >to become we also developed a roadmap that summarizes HCatalog's current >features, planned features, and other possible features under discussion: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HCATALOG/HCatalog+Roadmap > >So we are now approaching you to see if there is agreement in the Hive >community that HCatalog graduating into Hive would make sense. > >Alan.
