Hi Max, Thanks for your email with a quick summary of oozie meetup.
These are the action items and initial actors based on your list: 1(a) Eliminate redundancies in XML definitions. Britt/Mohammad 1(b) XML modeling tool. (Ryota/Ashish/Mohammad) 2. Visualize the Workflow current status.(Virag/Mohammad) 3. Deployment tools ( Max) 4. More to add... Please follow-up on these action items in couple of week. Regards, Mohammad ________________________________ From: Maxime Petazzoni <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: Post meetup discussion Hi all, Last week a bunch of us attended the Oozie Meetup prior to the Hadoop Summit at the San Jose Convention Center. It was really nice to be able to interact face-to-face with other Oozie contributors and users. At the end of the meetup we went over a few items that gathered consensus. I'd like to get the discussion going again on these so we can get to more precise requirements and use cases, and maybe inspire a few of us to get crackin'. I'll start first, to get the ball rolling. - one thing that was mentioned a lot is the ability to visually create workflows and coordinators instead of having to write XML. Although I personally don't rank this to be very high priority -- my use case is less around ad-hoc workflows -- I do see a huge value in this, if only to help spread Oozie. - directly related to visualization, monitoring of the running workflows is definitely at the top of my list. Being able to visualize the DAG of a workflow, with the completed actions in green, in progress action in yellow, failed action(s) in red would be a huge help for real-time monitoring and debugging. I've also written a command-line Python utility that helps managing a set of coordinators that need to run in various Hadoop clusters, exposing them as "applications" to the release manager. I'm not sure if this has any value for Oozie, but if anybody's interested I might be able to share the code for that. /Maxime -- { name: 'Maxime Petazzoni', title: 'Sr. Platform Engineer', company: { name: 'Turn, Inc', url: 'http://www.turn.com'; } }
