Works for me. I'll inquire about reserving a room for the afternoon and ping this list after confirming.
--travis On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >
