Github user joewitt commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/83#issuecomment-150340867 Totally with you on this Ricky. As far as the contrib goes that is legit. We should keep it up to date. However, you're right that we need a better model for things like Hadoop. It should be braindead easy for folks to plugin different Hadoop versions/providers and the user just get to select from a list.
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