Hi Travis, I won't be able to make it to the meet up. I will join the Google Hangouts link you have sent. Thanks for taking initiative and organizing the meet up.
Vandana On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Travis Crawford wrote: > Hey hcat gurus - > > Quick reminder the HCatalog meetup is tomorrow. > > LOCATION: > > Please meet in the 9th floor lobby at 1pm, and we'll head to the room > together. If you're running late just ask the receptionist to give me > a call and I'll come up and let you in. > > Twitter, Inc. > 1355 Market St, Suite 900 > San Francisco, CA 94103 > 1-5pm > > For remote folks, we'll be in the following Google Hangout: > > https://plus.google.com/events/cpd78loubheq7lsciq3qoq8llds > > > AGENDA: > > We'll roughly follow the following agenda, but its certainly not set > in stone. If there's something you'd like to discuss, or something > you'd like to learn about, just bring it up! > > > * 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. > > > > Seeya tomorrow! > > --travis Vandana Ayyalasomayajula
