The same criteria should be applied to all Hive committers. Only a committer should be able to commit code. I don¹t think we should bend this rule. Metastore is not a separate project, but a integral part of hive.
-namit On 11/12/12 10:32 PM, "Alan Gates" <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >I would suggest looking over the patch history of HCat committers. I >think most of them have already contributed a number of patches to the >metastore. All are certainly aware of how to run Hive unit tests and >have an understanding of how Hive works. So I don't think it's fair to >say they would be unsafe with access to the metastore. And the Hive PMC >is there to assure this does not happen. If there are issues I am sure >they can deal with them. > >Alan. > > >On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Namit Jain wrote: > >> Alan, that would not be a good idea. Metastore code is part of hive >>code, >> and it >> would be safer if only Hive committers had commit access to that. >> >> >> On 11/6/12 11:25 PM, "Alan Gates" <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Namit Jain wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> One thing in this we'd like to discuss is the HCatalog committers >>>having >>> commit access to the metastore sections of Hive code. That doesn't >>>mean >>> it has to move into HCatalog's code base. But more and more the fixes >>> and changes we're doing in HCatalog are really in Hive's metastore. So >>> we believe it would make sense to give HCat committers access to that >>> component as well as HCat. >>> >>> Alan. >>> >>>> >>>> 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/20120 >>>>>9. >>>>> mb >>>>> ox/%3C08C40723-8D4D-48EB-942B-8EE4327DD84A%40hortonworks.com%3E and >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/20121 >>>>>0. >>>>> mb >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>ox/%3CCABN7xTCRM5wXGgJKEko0PmqDXhuAYpK%2BD-H57T29zcSGhkwGQw%40mail.gma >>>>>il >>>>> .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. >>>> >>> >> >
