Hi Marc,

Ambari is only a part of the Bigtop distribution, so the project is not dead :)

Luca

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 1:28 PM Marc Hoppins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The latest from Ambari is that the project has not been moved to 'attic'. I 
> assume this means that further development will not happen.  How will this 
> affect BIGTOP development, is this project also 'dead'?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Toscano <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Some concerns - bigtop 3.0.0
>
> EXTERNAL
>
> Hi Marc!
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:17 PM Marc Hoppins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > After Jan31 2022, Docker is not free for businesses with either >=250 
> > employees or >=$10M of business. This creates a bit of a problem with 
> > trying to build/develop open source software now reliant on paid 
> > dependencies.
>
> My understanding is that Docker Engine will stay free, meanwhile for big 
> organizations Docker Desktop will introduce a new paid license. It is not 
> ideal, Windows and Mac users basically need Docker Desktop to rebuild 
> packages, meanwhile Linux users will likely keep going without problems[1].
> Docker Desktop seems to remain free for open-source communities and personal 
> use, that is a good sign. On the practical side, building Apache Bigtop 
> packages should be possible in most cases without any change, but I agree 
> that the true meaning of open-source tool/software may clash with the concept 
> of specific service agreements (like paying in certain situations). For the 
> moment there seems to be no rush to move away from Docker, but we should keep 
> an eye on how things evolve and possibly explore other possibilities.
> This is my understanding, I may miss something or be very wrong, in case let 
> me know :)
>
> > The bigtop jira page contains a reference to dropping support for Ubuntu 
> > 16.04. The build.gradle file makes no mention of any Ubuntu other than 
> > 16.04.
>
> The docs in build.gradle are definitely old, we should update them, I opened 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-3633 to track the problem.
>
> > The docs state “You CANNOT use root to complete the build…” but I tried a 
> > regular user build (./gradlew hadoop-pkg-ind -POS=ubuntu-20.04) and it 
> > failed almost immediately.
>
> The docs that you mention is
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Quickstart+Guide%3A+Bigtop+Integration+Test+Framework+2.0
> right (just to be on the same page). It probably needs an update as well :)
>
> > Bigtop-ambari-mpack – which resolves down to bgtp-ambari-mpack (I think 
> > from Matt Andruff), and then, further down the structure, 
> > src/main/resources/stacks/BGTP/1.0/repos, seems to be poking about at 
> > http://repos.bigtop.apache.org/releases/1.5.0/ubuntu/18.04. Is this a 
> > workaround somehow for 20.04?
>
> Very ignorant about mpack, I'll let others answer!
>
> Thanks a lot for the report,
>
> Luca
>
> --
> [1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/binaries/
> [2] https://www.docker.com/pricing

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