Hi Travis, Would love to attend this - Is this a webex/conf call?
Thanks Rekha On 11/09/12 5:33 AM, "Travis Crawford" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >>
