Re: Pig Status/Documentation

[Chris Olston]

Hi Derek,

All of these items are moving forward, albeit more slowly than  
expected (as usual :). Here's the status:

documentation: the tech writer is working with us now and is  
currently getting up to speed.
tutorial: a draft is ready, and we are targeting June 1 to get it out  
on the web.
dev environment: the latest Pig release does include the "ILLUSTRATE"  
command, which is one of the components of our dev environment (makes  
it easier to play with pig scripts and see how data gets transformed  
by Pig commands). The eclipse plugin is still in the works.

-Chris


On May 7, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Derek Springer wrote:

Hi all,
My colleagues and I are interested in if there is any update on the  
status
of the items we discussed previously (documentation, tutorials,  
development
environment, etc). We are still excited to dig deeper with pig and  
would
appreciate any help! Thanks!

Derek Springer
UCLA CS Department

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Chris Olston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

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




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