When we do the 0.7.0 Apache release, we are planning to release artifacts to Maven (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-199), which is great. However, I don't remember discussion of a standalone binary release. Is that also planned?
I am thinking of the following: a .zip/.tar.gz file which includes all dependencies, and which has the user-facing shell scripts (run-job.sh, kill-yarn-job.sh, checkpoint-tool.sh) in a bin directory in the archive, wired up and ready to go. Say you're a user who has a job config on your machine, and a job package (already built) somewhere where YARN can reach it. You should be able to download that Samza release, unpack it, and immediately run `./samza-0.7.0/bin/run-job.sh --config-path=file:///path/to/job.conf` to submit a job. I think the way it works in hello-samza (where you first have to build an artifact of your own job, and then unpack it again to get the shell scripts for submitting the job) will confuse new users. What do you think? Sorry if this is already planned, I just don't recall seeing anything like this mentioned anywhere in JIRA/mailing list/build config. Martin
