Re: Why the official Hadoop Documents are so messy?

2013-01-10 Thread Jason Lee
Thanks, you guys, deeply appreciated for your replies. I am just a newbie to Hadoop. I noticed this problem when i looking for some documentations on official site. No offensive, i just think these official documentations may be confusing beginners like me. I'm very glad to post this to hadoop

Re: Why the official Hadoop Documents are so messy?

2013-01-08 Thread Mohammad Tariq
Hello there, Thank you for the comments. But, just to let you know, it's a community work and no one in particular can be held responsible for these kind of small things. This is how open source works. Guys who are working on Hadoop have a lot of things to do. In spite of that, they are

Re: Why the official Hadoop Documents are so messy?

2013-01-08 Thread Oleg Zhurakousky
Just a little clarification This is NOT how open source works by any means as there are many Open Source projects with well written and maintained documentation. It all comes down to the 2 Open Source models 1. ASF Open Source - which is a pure democracy or may be even anarchy without any

Re: Why the official Hadoop Documents are so messy?

2013-01-08 Thread Oleg Zhurakousky
No, I was not talking about wrappers of ASF projects. I was referring to non-ASF Open Source projects all together (e.g., GitHub, SourceForge, Google code etc.). Oleg On Jan 8, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Glen Mazza gma...@talend.com wrote: quote: Obviously in the second there is a vested interested

Re: Why the official Hadoop Documents are so messy?

2013-01-08 Thread Hemanth Yamijala
Hi, I am not sure if your complaint is as much about the changing interfaces as it is about documentation. Please note that versions prior to 1.0 did not have stable interfaces as a major requirement. Not by choice, but because the focus was on seemingly more important functionality, stability,