Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-06 Thread Alan Gates
On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Lefty Leverenz wrote: snip Let me split another hair: my converted files actually belong to Hortonworks, and Alan deserves credit for assigning that task to me (thanks, Alan). I'd better return the files so they can contribute them. I don't think we

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-04 Thread Alan Gates
I'm definitely +1 on moving the language doc to source control. Being able to have versions of the language manual that match versions of Hive would be very valuable. Alan. On Sep 1, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: Over the past few weeks I have taken several looks over documents

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-04 Thread Lefty Leverenz
I believe I converted a majority of the wiki before you did https://github.com/mislam77/hive-li/blob/master/docs/xdocs/language_manual/cli.xml, but that is splitting hairs :) Go ahead and split hairs, Edward, because you deserve plenty of credit. And last year you warned me that the

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-02 Thread Lefty Leverenz
Last year I converted the entire Language Manual to xdocs, but the project died from lack of community interest. So if this goes forward, please don't start from scratch again -- my files would need to be updated, but wiki page history makes that fairly easy. Of course there are several new docs

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-02 Thread Edward Capriolo
I understand your concerns, but Last year I converted the entire Language Manual to xdocs, but the project died from lack of community interest. I believe I converted a majority of the wiki before you did https://github.com/mislam77/hive-li/blob/master/docs/xdocs/language_manual/cli.xml, but

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-02 Thread Lars Francke
The page that strikes me as alarmingly poor is the: https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html The correct link is: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual For some reason there is an Auto Export Plugin which exports all Confluence pages as static HTML. That

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-02 Thread Edward Capriolo
I think that pages with only syntax that do not reference a source table or show results are not very useful to me. This page is nice: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+LateralView This page is not nearly as useful:

DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-01 Thread Edward Capriolo
Over the past few weeks I have taken several looks over documents in our wiki. The page that strikes me as alarmingly poor is the: https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html This page has several critical broken links such as https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-groupby.html

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-01 Thread Stephen Boesch
Will this allow BNF's for the DDL / DML to be provided and made up to date more readily ? 2013/9/1 Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.com Over the past few weeks I have taken several looks over documents in our wiki. The page that strikes me as alarmingly poor is the:

Re: DISCUSS: Hive language manual to be source control managed

2013-09-01 Thread Edward Capriolo
I am not sure about BNF. Hive uses antlr so the language itself is never described as BNF. Maybe antlr has a tool or clever way to turn the .g file into BNF. If it is possible that should be something we do during a document generating step. Also if a new feature does change the language the