Josh, Billie, Thank you for reviewing the draft. Billie, I will make the change as you suggested. Should I also explicitly mention that the funtests have not been moved yet and needs to be converted to Java before we do so?
-Gour On 11/2/16, 8:22 AM, "Billie Rinaldi" <[email protected]> wrote: >Thanks for the draft, Gour. This looks good. The only part I would change >is this: "As a result, portions like Slider Core, Application Master, >Client and Tests had been rolled into Apache Hadoop YARN as module(s)." It >isn't clear whether it includes the funtests or not, and all the slider >code is in a single module in YARN. I'd suggest "As a result, the Slider >Core module (including Application Master, Client and Java unit tests) has >been rolled into an Apache Hadoop YARN feature branch as a >hadoop-yarn-slider-core module." > >On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Gour Saha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Please review and provide feedback on the draft below. >> >> ========================================================= >> Slider >> >> Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and >> manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters. >> >> Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29. >> >> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: >> >> 1. Apache Slider community/PPMC has voted to move portions of Slider >>into >> Apache Hadoop YARN as modules. It is possible that the remaining >>pieces >> will be moved at a later point in time or become obsolete or evolve >>to >> work closely with YARN. Slider PPMC will decide what makes the most >> sense as we progress through this exciting time. >> 2. Getting more external users >> 3. Growth of a diverse set of developers/committers/PMC members is also >> crucial towards the final state of Slider >> >> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be >>aware >> of? >> >> No. >> >> How has the community developed since the last report? >> >> The Apache Hadoop YARN community/PMC and Apache Slider community/PPMC >> had decided to move portions of Slider into YARN, to make fast and >> significant >> progress on: YARN-4692 - [Umbrella] Simplified and first-class support >>for >> services in YARN. As a result, portions like Slider Core, Application >> Master, >> Client and Tests had been rolled into Apache Hadoop YARN as module(s). >> This effort is being captured in: YARN-5079 : Native YARN framework >>layer >> for services. All the migrations are happening in a branch (namely >> yarn-native-services) created of off Hadoop trunk. As a result of this, >> we are already seeing interest in the Hadoop committers/PMC, who have >> started to contribute and submit patches to Slider. >> >> In order to support existing users of Slider, and to provide seamless >> migration, there will be sufficient overlap between the time when a >>stable >> state of long running services support is available in some future >>version >> of YARN and the time till an independent Slider release is available. >>The >> community/PPMC will also determine the future state of Slider as we >> navigate through these changes. >> >> The discussions on the Slider and YARN community DLs can be viewed here >>- >> >> https://s.apache.org/0hoh >> https://s.apache.org/MncV >> >> For the benefit of those who would like to use Slider Core from the >> Hadoop codebase, but continue to use classic Slider Agent and legacy >> app-packages, a new branch (yarn-native-services) has been created >> in classic Slider repo. This branch retains only the Agent (python) code >> and the App Packages. It adds Slider Core module as a Hadoop >> dependency. This allows users to consume the latest of Slider Core. >> Future classic Slider releases can be made purely off of this branch. >> >> Additionally an effort is being made to create an agent-less provider >>for >> legacy app-packages, which could help users to completely migrate to >> Hadoop codebase for creating long-running services with Slider. >>Expectation >> from app-package owners would be to make minor modification of their >> packages. Primary changes would be to shed the dependency on python >> Agent code, effectively making packages much simpler than what they >> look like today in classic Slider. >> >> How has the project developed since the last report? >> >> There has been fewer bug fixes on the classic Slider side as most of >> the focus has been on developing features on native YARN services in >> the Hadoop codebase. Work continues on support for complex services >> (assemblies) and agent-less applications in Slider. The efforts on >>Slider >> Core will continue in the new services branch created in YARN. Few >> key features which were merged to classic Slider as well were - >> SLIDER-875 - Ability to create an Uber application package with >> capability to deploy and manage as a single business app, and >> SLIDER-1107 - Generate app configuration files in AM. Several issues >> identified by Coverity scans were resolved as well. Additionally few >> patches were contributed by the community fixing functional and >> performance issues. Slider community plans to ship a release in the >> next quarter with all these features and bug fixes. >> >> Date of last release: >> >> 2016-06-28 slider-0.91.0-incubating >> >> When were the last committers or PMC members elected? >> >> 2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu >> >>
