I checked the Pig repo and I see some recent activity. Rohini is actively leading the effort towards a new Pig release. Given that there is proven interest to maintain and contribute to this module I would prefer to keep it for the time being unless there are major issues that I am not aware of.
Best, Stamatis On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 9:09 PM Rohini Palaniswamy <roh...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Attila, > We still use HCatLoader and HCatStorer heavily and would like to retain > the support. We are also fixing it to work with Iceberg tables and will be > contributing patches for both Hive 3 and Hive 4. So would like the support > to be continued with Hive 4. > > Regards, > Rohini > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:59 AM Alessandro Solimando < > alessandro.solima...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +1 from me, let's just make sure we make a good salame out of it :) > > > > Best regards, > > Alessandro > > > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 10:50, Attila Turoczy <aturo...@cloudera.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> In Hive we have a pretty old component from 1972 and this is the Pig. > Pig > >> was cool somewhere in 2008, but nowadays it does not have any value in > the > >> big data world. Even the last small release of big was 6 years ago in > 2017, > >> also the pig community has pretty much died. Because this component is > >> obsolete I would suggest removing it from Hive 4.0. The hive 3 will > still > >> contain it, but I think this is a right time to remove those components > >> that are not valuable for the community. > >> > >> What do you think about it? > >> > >> Ps: If nobody wrote it back, It would mean I could kill the pig (rof > rof) > >> :) > >> > >> -Attila > >> > > >
