Hey,
> If we do go ahead with pulling the metastore out of Hive, it might make > most sense for Howl to become its own TLP rather than a subproject. > Yes, I did not read the proposal closely enough. I think an end state as a TLP makes more sense for Howl than as a Pig subproject. I'd really love to see Howl replace the metastore in Hive and it would be more natural to do so as a TLP than as a Pig subproject--especially since the current Howl repository is literally a fork of Hive. > In the incubator proposal, we have mentioned these issues, but we've > attempted to avoid prejudicing any decision. Instead, we'd like to assess > the pros and cons (including effort required and impact expected) for both > approaches as part of the incubation process. > Glad the issues are being considered. Later, Jeff