Hey, Thanks for writing up these notes, they're very useful.
Pradeep Kamath gave a short presentation on Howl, the work he is leading to > create a shared metadata system between Pig, Hive, and Map Reduce. Dmitriy > noted that we need to get this work more in the open so others can > participate and contribute. > Is there a public JIRA where one could follow this work? Any chance we can break it up into incremental milestones rather than have a single code drop as with previous large features in Pig? I understand it may be difficult to coordinate internal development with external user groups, but I hope the feedback from third parties might make such a process worthwhile. There have been proposals in the past that Pig switch to generate Oozie > workflows instead of MR jobs. Alan indicated that he does not see the value > of this. > I think https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1107 captures the spirit of this idea without mention of Oozie. It would be good to either create a corresponding Pig JIRA or reuse the Hive JIRA for the arguments for and against the proposal. I can certainly imagine valid arguments for both sides. Thanks, Jeff
