Sanjiva/Shankar/Srinath/Isabelle et al, What do you guys feel about forking Hadoop? IMO, its going to be a major maintenance overhead.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Prabath Abeysekera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've got a 3rd party dependency (i.e Hadoop/HDFS) to be adapted into GIT > and wondering where exactly I should do the initial developments, etc with > the newly introduced GIT model? I do realize that I could have simply used > a private repository or something and do the initial forking and stuff, but > just checking if there's any recommended space available within any > WSO2-managed repository where I could simply get the stuff checked in and > make them available for collaborative developments within the team. > > What's the recommended approach? > > Let me explain why we need to get this in created as a separate repository > as well. We'd already done a lot of R&D around getting MT implemented for > HDFS using the extension points exposed within Hadoop without any success. > Tried getting ourselves into discussions with the Hadoop community also > just to see if there's an alternative approach available to what we'd > suggested for implementing the same but haven't received any positive > response yet. Therefore, I'm afraid the only approach we're left with right > now is to get the sources forked into our own code base and moving forward > with the developments. I certainly do realize that this would incur > maintenance issues and all while trying to upgrade the versions, etc. > However, I do not see any other feasible alternative option that we can > make use of, in order to continue developments on this front. > > Please do share your feedback as to how we could resolve the > aforementioned as well. > > > Cheers, > Prabath > > P.S. Pardon if this is something that's already been discussed within the > list, I'm just trying to get my head around this. :) > > -- > Prabath Abeysekara > Associate Technical Lead, Data TG. > WSO2 Inc. > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +94774171471 > -- *Afkham Azeez* Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ * <http://www.apache.org/>* *email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]> * cell: +94 77 3320919blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org> *twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez* <http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> *linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez>* *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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