Hi Chris, Thanks for your interest in the proposal. Using Whirr in other projects, like OODT, is definitely a use case I'm interested in. Also Solr would make a good service to include in Whirr.
Cheers, Tom On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > This sounds interesting. It would be interesting to look at e.g., how we > could take some of the OODT [1] configurations and use Whirr as a front-end > to run them in the cloud. I also know the folks in Solr are using Zookeeper, > so they may benefit from this project as well. > > I don't have a huge amount of time since I'm overcommitted at work, and with > 2 podlings I'm participating in (OODT and SIS), but my +1 to move forward > with this as it seems useful. I will try and monitor the lists and if I get > the time to help out at some point, I'll bug you on list ^_^ > > Cheers, > Chris > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/oodt.html > > > On 4/15/10 2:42 PM, "Tom White" <tomwh...@apache.org> wrote: > > I would like to propose Whirr as an incubator proposal. > > Whirr will be a set of libraries for running cloud services, such as > Hadoop or Cassandra. The initial code (for Hadoop) is hosted as a > Hadoop contrib module, but I believe it would flourish as its own > project with its own community. > > The proposal is on the incubator wiki at > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WhirrProposal. > > We look forward to hearing feedback and questions on the proposal. > Also, we don't have any mentors yet, so please sign up if you are > interested in helping out. > > Thanks, > Tom > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
