The spark-ec2 repository isn't a part of Mesos. Back in the days, Spark used to be hosted in the Mesos github organization as well and so we put scripts that were used by Spark under the same organization.
FWIW I don't think these scripts belong in the Spark repository. They are helper scripts that setup EC2 clusters with different components like HDFS, Spark, Tachyon etc. Also one of the motivations for creating this repository was the ability to change these scripts without requiring a new Spark release or a new AMI etc. We can move the repository to a different github organization like AMPLab if that'll make sense. Thanks Shivaram On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Nicholas Chammas < nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Spawned by this discussion > <https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1120#issuecomment-54305831>. > > See these 2 lines in spark_ec2.py: > > - spark_ec2 L42 > < > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/6a72a36940311fcb3429bd34c8818bc7d513115c/ec2/spark_ec2.py#L42 > > > - spark_ec2 L566 > < > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/6a72a36940311fcb3429bd34c8818bc7d513115c/ec2/spark_ec2.py#L566 > > > > Why does the spark-ec2 script depend on stuff in the Mesos repo? Should > they be moved to the Spark repo? > > Nick > >