+1, let's do this. Thanks for offering to host. Would Thursday, Sept 20th be a good day for this?
Alan. On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Travis Crawford wrote: > Hey hcat gurus - > > Anyone interested in having an HCat meetup in the next few weeks? I > think it would be great to see how others are using it, have some > design discussions, and learn more about unfamiliar corners of the > code. I can host at Twitter - we'd need to see how many people are > interested in coming though. What might be good is making an afternoon > of it, and people can stop by for lunch before-hand if they want. > > Here's an agenda to get the conversation started – want to change anything? > > * Introductions > - Who you are, how you're using hcat. > > * Demos > - HCatalog thrift support > - Your demo here! (webhcat?) > > * Developer efficiency discussion > - Review latency (RTC/CTR; other strategies to improve our shipping > cadence) > - Testing: > - how to run e2e tests > - what to run before commits > > * Project design discussion > - HCat CLI – what's the vision here? Why not just use the Hive > CLI? What distinguishes the HCat-specific version? > - HCat server – what's the vision here? Why not just direct users > to setup a HiveMetaStore and point to the Hive documentation? > - Type conversions – how to address framework-specific conversions > (pig doesn't have byte for example, but MR does) > - Any other design issues you want to discuss? > > * "Unconference" discussions > - Two rounds of discussions on topics proposed by the group. > - 2-3 discussions per-round in different parts of the room; just > go to the topic that sounds interesting. > - Recap at the end. > > > Thoughts? > > --travis
