On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Colin McCabe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017, at 10:56, Billie Rinaldi wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Billie Rinaldi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I posted the report to https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2017 > and > > > > signed off. Other mentors, please sign off as well. > > > > > > > > > > > Done > > > > > > > > > > > > > There has been some discussion in the Accumulo community about > > > contributing > > > > its span receiver back to HTrace. We know it works well, and that > would > > > > make configuring and versioning it easier. I haven't had time to > work on > > > > it, though, which is why I haven't brought it up. Would HTrace > consider > > > > accepting an Accumulo span receiver, if we could find someone to > work on > > > > it? > > > > > > > > > > > Yes. Makes sense. What is special about this receiver? > > > > > > > Nearly all Apache Accumulo instances are configured to send traces to > > themselves using this mechanism. There's a tracer process that spans are > > sent to via Thrift, and the tracer inserts the spans into Accumulo. The > > tracer location(s) are discovered via ZooKeeper. So, pretty normal? > > https://github.com/apache/accumulo/tree/master/server/tracer > /src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/tracer > > Yeah, we should add that SpanReceiver to HTrace. > > > > > When testing out HDFS and Accumulo tracing together, I found I had to add > > a > > configuration property that would optionally allow the receiver to drop > > spans of length 0ms, as HDFS was generating a huge number of these. (I > > realize dropping spans is not recommended, but I was still able to do > > some > > interpretation of parentless spans when the 0ms spans were missing.) > > This should be fixed in the latest HDFS. Unfortunately, the Hadoop 2.8 > release got eaten by a grue, but if you try Hadoop 3.0 alpha, it should > be there. Incidentally, updating Accumulo to HTrace 4.x would be one of > the best things we could do to help HTrace... > We've had a discussion about that. I think it will happen when we bump our default Hadoop version to one that depends on HTrace 4. It will mean dropping support for Accumulo+HDFS tracing for versions of Hadoop using HTrace 3, but we decided that would be preferable to having a shim layer. Another reason it would be nice to have the Accumulo receiver in HTrace. > > cheers, > Colin > > > > > Billie > > > > > > > > > > St.Ack > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Colin McCabe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017, at 13:01, Stack wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Billie Rinaldi < > [email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > HTrace's quarterly report is slightly overdue (due yesterday). > I've > > > > > pasted > > > > > > > a bare bones draft below based on the last report. Does anyone > have > > > > > > > something to add? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you Billie. +1 on the report. It conveys that little has > > > > happened > > > > > > since our last report. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We should have a discussion about HTrace's status. We were > talking > > > > > about > > > > > > > the possibility of graduation over a year ago. Do you think we > need > > > > to > > > > > grow > > > > > > > the community further before proposing graduation? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We should. There has been little progress of late. Lets talk > about > > > > this. > > > > > > Most of us seem to be off occupied on other stuff with little > time > > > over > > > > > > for > > > > > > moving HTrace forward. > > > > > > > > > > > > St.Ack > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for speaking up, Billie and Stack. Agree it's been a little > > > > > quiet lately. I've been busy on Apache Kafka recently. There was > some > > > > > stuff I wanted to push on the HTrace side but I didn't get a > chance to > > > > > post it yet. > > > > > > > > > > Colin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > > > > > > HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed > > > > systems > > > > > > > written in java. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards > > > > graduation: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Continue to grow the Apache HTrace community > > > > > > > 2. Continue to explore projects integrating Apache HTrace > > > > > > > 3. Continue to develop and release stable Apache HTrace > > > incubating > > > > > > > artifacts > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board > wish/need to > > > be > > > > > > > aware of? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mailing lists have been quiet. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Development has been quiet. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How would you assess the podling's maturity? > > > > > > > Please feel free to add your own commentary. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [ ] Initial setup > > > > > > > [ ] Working towards first release > > > > > > > [x] Community building > > > > > > > [ ] Nearing graduation > > > > > > > [ ] Other: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date of last release: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2016-10-06 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2016-10-03 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Colin McCabe > [email protected] >
