Generally we only apply patches to trunk. Thus maintaining branches becomes to much trouble for us. You have to remember that most hive major versions have no actual major changes. Most everything is hidden behind a query language. The only changes that have to be done carefully are changes to the metastore that add things like views or security.
As for HIVE-2910, again this change made no changes to any core code. HWI tries hard not to touch internals. As result I am almost 100% positive you can replace hive-hwi-0.9.0.war with hive-hwi-0.10.0.war in your hive lib directory, so you really do not need to wait for a release just to get the new HWI. As for improving HWI, hwi is a funny story. The open source hive had no web interface, at the time the type of users that were into hive and hadoop (since it was so new) where hardcore coders and distributed systems experts. Those types do not typically use web interfaces. Fast forward to now and EVERYONE and their grandmother uses hadoop and suddenly web interfaces are actually an important selling point! (I wrote hwi btw) In hive I have moved onto writing UDFs, StorageHandlers, InputFormats, and doing patch reviews. The web interface is low hanging fruit. If anyone wants to add a feature to HWI (like the bootstrap one or others), open a jira and I will promptly review and commit. Much like the features in the CLI (autocomplete and .hiverc) they did not get better magically, but they are again easy low hanging fruit that almost any coded can take care of. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Bertrand Dechoux <decho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is my stand. Hive provides a dsl to easily explore data contained in > hadoop with limited experience with java and MapReduce. > And Hive Web Interface provides an easy exposition : users need only a > browser and the hadoop cluster can be well 'fire-walled' because the > communication is only through http. > > I saw the work of HIVE-2910. Of course, it could still be improved. But it > was needed and it is a great first step. I don't see it as a minor > improvement. That is a great way for promoting the HWI. > As such, I think it is a shame the patch was only applied for the 0.10 > version and not for the 0.9.1. Is there any reason for that? Is there any > change that it could be added to the 0.9.0? Do you have any estimate for the > release date of the 0.9.1 version? > > Of course, there is at least an alternative : Beeswax within Hue but CDH is > a big dependency that can not just be added because the end user requires a > decent interface. > > Thanks in advance for all feedback > > Bertrand
