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Aaron Kimball commented on MAPREDUCE-1644:
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Allen,
The Incubator is most appropriate for projects which are building strong
development communities in an attempt to grow to TLP status. Sqoop has been
under active development for a year and while it is gaining a user base, a
diverse developer base does not seem to be materializing of its own accord.
Thus I don't think that going through the process hurdles of incubation are
necessarily appropriate at this time.
My goal is to perform the necessary technical transitions, then get Sqoop
toward a state where it can produce releases rapidly and regularly, independent
of the heavier-weight Hadoop release process.
Within this framework I intend to improve Sqoop's integration with other
systems (namely Hive) which could not be done within the context of the
MapReduce project itself.
According to http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html the
requirements for graduating from incubator to TLP status include:
{quote}
The project is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there are at
least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company or entity
that is vital to the success of the project)
{quote}
I don't think it's appropriate to enter the incubator at this time, when I
don't have a foreseeable plan to overcome this hurdle. Hadoop is also moving
away from subprojects, so it doesn't seem reasonable to add yet another one
there.
Nothing prevents Sqoop from being brought into the Incubator at a later time,
if a diverse set of developers emerge to improve Sqoop. But an incubator
project that has a single committer seems overwrought.
> Remove Sqoop from Apache Hadoop (moving to github)
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-1644
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1644
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: contrib/sqoop
> Reporter: Aaron Kimball
> Assignee: Aaron Kimball
> Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1644.patch
>
>
> Sqoop is moving to github! All code for sqoop is already live at
> http://github.com/cloudera/sqoop - this issue removes the duplicate code from
> the Apache Hadoop repository before the 0.21 release.
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