Re: Pig Status/Documentation

[Chris Olston]

Hi Derek,

We just got word that a documentation writer will be joining our team  
(part time), so we should be able to improve the documentation a  
great deal over the next few months (will take a while to ramp up).  
For now, the current apache wiki will have to do (sorry, it's not  
very good), but feel free to ask lots of questions on this mailing list.

We are in the process of constructing a comprehensive tutorial of  
Pig, that would walk you through installation and running a sample  
program over a public data set. We expect to have the tutorial done  
this month.

As for the development environment, Shubham Chopra (cc'ed) has the  
token on that -- it's done and just needs to be pushed through the  
Apache commit process. Shubham: what's the ETA on getting that into  
the codebase? Will you be able to submit the patch for review within  
the next week?

-Chris


On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Derek Springer wrote:

Hi all,
I am currently a grad student in the Computer Science Department at  
UCLA
under Dr. Alfonso Cardenas. After communicating with Chris Olston  
we have
become interested in utilizing Pig for a number of our research  
projects. To
that end, my colleagues and I were interested in if there are any
comprehensive documentation or guides that might assist us in  
implementing
Pig in our projects. We have had some success from the examples in  
the wiki,
but we are definitely interested in really digging deep into what  
Pig can
do!

Additionally, we are curious to know when the upcoming Pig development
environment is planning to be released. Is there a time frame  
outlined to
when we can expect this?

Thanks!
Derek Springer

--
Christopher Olston, Ph.D.
Sr. Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research