I agree, I think it's a good idea to remove it. I haven't ever run into anyone using the GiraphGraphComputer.
--Ted On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Jorge Bay Gondra <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm +1 on removing support for Giraph. > > We should try to simplify the build as much as possible and this > integration doesn't seem to be very useful or in demand, specially with > gremlin OLAP. > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > A week or so ago I decided to try to figure out what was going on with > the > > Giraph upgrade - some of you may recall that we backed off doing that > > upgrade for 3.3.0 at the last minute because it was hanging up Hadoop. > > After messing with it for a bit, I started to wonder why this work was > > necessary at all. Why not just suggest to the community that we drop > > support for Giraph in 3.4.0? > > > > Some reasoning: > > > > 1. This weird Hadoop hanging problem is preventing upgrade. I suppose I > > could try to figure it out, but Marko already tried and didn't succeed, > so > > I'm not sure what new insight I would bring since he was the expert. > > 2. It massively slows our integration tests. we could be many times more > > productive without giraph in the build. > > 3. The Giraph community seems dormant (not one post on user mailing list > > since November 2017 and very little happening on dev though i just > learned > > they have an LGPL dependency in their stuff while looking at recent > posts - > > no one has jumped on it to address it - the PR from community is still > open > > https://github.com/apache/giraph/pull/61 and over 2 weeks old). It just > > doesn't seem like anyone is really maintaining or advancing the project. > > 4. I could be wrong, but I sense that most organizations are using > > gremlin-spark to do their work and giraph is largely unused. > > > > Anyway, it would be good to hear any feedback on this fairly major > > decision. If there are no objections here on the dev list, I will take > this > > discussion to the user list and twitter to see if what the user community > > thinks. > > > > Thanks, > > > > stephen > > >
