+1. This looks very useful. Shreepadma
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ashish Thusoo <athu...@qubole.com> wrote: > +1. > > This is certainly very useful work. > > Ashish > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Carl Steinbach <cwsteinb...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ashutosh Chauhan <hashut...@apache.org > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Harish and Prajkta are doing some cool work over at > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-896 IMO its a very useful > > > feature for the community and our user base. Harish and Prajkta are > > making > > > steady progress on this for much last year in their github repo > > > https://github.com/hbutani/hive and much of the feature is now > > functional. > > > However, its quite a bit of work and new code which will take some time > > > before being ready for trunk. I propose that we create a new branch so > > that > > > further development of this happens in apache repo instead of github > > repo. > > > This gets us few benefits: > > > a) It will avoid the situation we ended up with HiveServer2 where a > > useful > > > new functionality came but in one big patch which made its review and > > thus > > > inclusion in mainline harder than it should have been. > > > b) Obvious advantages of development getting done in apache as oppose > to > > > github which are: > > > i) It will make it easier for apache hive community members > > interested > > > in this work (like me) to follow progress. > > > ii) It will make it easier for apache hive community members > > interested > > > in this work to contribute. > > > iii) It will make it easier for apache community members to review > > the > > > work and provide feedback. > > > > > > I further propose that we follow Commit-than-review policy for this > > feature > > > branch which will enable contributors to make rapid progress without > > > waiting for lengthy review cycles. Hive committers interested in work > can > > > either review branch any time they want to provide feedback or can wait > > > till contributors declare work is complete and make a proposal to merge > > in > > > trunk and than review it than. This anyway is a throwaway branch not > > > intended to make releases out of it. > > > > > > Unless I hear any objections, I will create a branch over the weekend. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ashutosh > > > > > >
