Re: drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Stefán Baxter wrote: > It's fair to add that the document, once read aft-the-fact, already > mentions some of the things that still caused me problems (?user problem?). > Yes. I read the document and found the pieces that you mention. But you are a great experi

Re: drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Pinaki Mukerji
Agree with points made by Jacques. Let's create the JIRA as/when they come up. And will have the Drill team to address them. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Jacques Nadeau wrote: > FYI, I hijacked Ted's DRILL-3516 [1] to create a number of subtasks to > improve UDF experience. The issue reall

Re: drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Jacques Nadeau
FYI, I hijacked Ted's DRILL-3516 [1] to create a number of subtasks to improve UDF experience. The issue really falls into two categories: - Better documentation - Less sharp edges [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3516 On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Jim Scott wrote: > To iter

Re: drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Jim Scott
To iterate on Ted's point... and to note, this is not disagreement from Jacques point... There are a core set of capabilities within Drill that need to have fantastic documentation... 1. User documentation for how to write queries - I personally feel this is very good and continues to get better.

Re: drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Jacques Nadeau
Ted, - I've heard from a number of people that Drill's documentation is one of the best of all Hadoop-related projects - There are--and will always be--places where the documentation could be improved. - The people working on documentation have always been very responsive to feedback and that show

Re: drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Stefán Baxter
Hi Ted .. and others, I'm here and willing to help. It's fair to add that the document, once read aft-the-fact, already mentions some of the things that still caused me problems (?user problem?). It's also fair to add that I'm not going anywhere :) I like this project too much to have a few dent

drill user experience

2015-07-20 Thread Ted Dunning
We just had Stefan over on the user@drill list stick with us through thick and thin to get a very simple UDF up. He isn't a dolt by any means, but here is his signature on email describing his state of mind: Regards, > -Stefan (*not the happiest camper*) The only reason that this guy is still