I am +1 on this too. I would love to see better tool support for Hadoop. --Bobby
On 9/17/12 2:42 PM, "Eli Collins" <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: >Hey Adam, > >That would be awesome. +1 > >We've discussed moving the various contrib projects out of Hadoop in >the past, and think it make sense for all the reasons you mention. A >good example of how we've done this was done previously is MRUnit, >now hosted at http://mrunit.apache.org. > >Next steps, if others agree then you can draft a proposal to vote on. >See this thread and jira for an example: >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201102.mbox/%3C774 >05974-6771-4604-926b-976240743...@mac.com%3E >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2430 > >Thanks, >Eli > >On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Adam Berry <ambe...@yahoo-inc.com> >wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm proposing spinning out the eclipse plugin from the main hadoop >>source into a separate incubating project. I'm willing to commit to this >>effort. >> >> With a separate project, that isn't tied (source wise) to the Hadoop >>source we could make dev tools that could support multiple versions of >>Hadoop from within a single IDE, which would be very helpful when >>migrating jobs or dealing with clusters running different versions. >> >> The current tools seem to support the 0.20 line, and help with >>developing MR jobs, and also have some HDFS tools included. So the early >>work would be to ensure that these features were supported across the >>version space of Hadoop. >> >> Down the line we could also add support for additional tools such as >>MRUnit and other products in the Hadoop ecosystem, to eventually yield a >>one stop project for all dev tools around this space. >> >> If there is agreement on this, how do we go about getting it done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Adam Berry
