Hi all, I am a contributor to Apache Bigtop <http://bigtop.apache.org> and have a question for you. Bigtop is a TLP responsible for performing packaging and interoperability testing of various projects in the Hadoop ecosystem, including Apache Pig.
We are planning to include Pig 0.11 in our soon to be released Bigtop 0.6 distribution. However, while upgrading Pig from 0.10 to 0.11, I wasn't able to compile Pig 0.11.1 on RPM based systems<http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-trunk-Pig/313/label=centos6/console>. There doesn't seem to be anything Bigtop specific here, I would expect this issue to impact all Pig users. It seems like Pig's contrib sub-project uses the system's default encoding for compiling code; however on RPM based systems, the default encoding is not suitable and breaks the build. I created PIG-3262 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3262> to track this and Cheolsoo graciously committed this to Pig trunk. The essence of Bigtop is exactly to find integration issues like this. Now, I do realize that Bill and the community has done some excellent work in putting together 0.11.1. Perhaps, I am a little too late to ask this question but I thought I'd ask it anyway. Is there a possibility that the Pig community can release a new release candidate for 0.11.1 with the fix in PIG-3262? The pros: 1. It would allow Pig users to compile Pig contrib on RPM machines (RHEL/CentOS 5, 6, SLES 11, Fedora, etc.) which doesn't seem to be possible as of now. 2. It would enable Apache Bigtop 0.6 to include a Pig version that builds on all OS variants. The cons: 1. There is a cost of cutting out another release candidate to the Pig community. I completely understand and appreciate the cost involved; however, I would anticipate the cost to be minimal since a) the change<https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12575962/PIG-3262.2.patch>is quite trivial; b) the change only affects the contrib functionality and not the "core" functionality, per se. If we do decide to release another release candidate, I would be more than happy to perform integration testing on it by means of Apache Bigtop. I do realize the unfortunate timing of this email, it would have been ideal if we were having this conversation a week ago while the vote was still going on. I will try to change that in future so please do accept my apologies in advance. Regards, Mark
