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: > https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html > > This page has several critical broken links such as > https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-groupby.html > https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-transform.html > > The language manual used to be in decent shape. At times it had omissions > or was not clear about what version something appeared it, but it was very > usable. > > A long time ago I had began and completed moving the wiki documentation > inside the project as xdoc. After completion, several had a problem with > the xdocs approach. The main complaint was the xdoc approach was too > cumbersome. (However we have basically had a 'turn over' and since that > time I am one of the few active committers) > > The language manual is in very poor shape at the moment with broken links, > incorrect content, incomplete content, and poor coverage of the actual > languages. IMHO the attempts to crowd-source this documentation has failed. > Having a good concise language manual is critical to the success and > adoption of hive. > > I do not believe all of our documentation needs to be in xdoc (as in every > udf, or every input format) but I believe the language manual surely does. > > Please review the current wiki and discuss the concept of moving the > language manual to source control, or suggest other options. > > Thank you, > Edward > > >
