You may not be able to do this for a day or so before I get the ACK from Board@.
Thanks for mentioning this Enis. Lewis On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Enis Söztutar <enis....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Keith, welcome on board. Glad to see you as a committer. > > As a traditional first commit, could you please add yourself to the > credits.xml under http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/gora/site/. After you > check out the project, you can build it with running ant > -Dforrest.home=/path/to/forrest. Then please commit the changes under > author/ and publish/. The site at gora.apache.org should be automatically > updated shortly. > > Thanks, > Enis > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Keith Turner <ke...@deenlo.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney > > <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In the meantime, feel free to maybe say a bit about yourself, what > > brought > > > you to Gora etc. > > > > Now that Accumulo is publicly available, there are lots things it > > would be nice to integrate Accumulo with like Gora, Data Nucleus, > > Spring Data, HCatalog, Pig, Hive, etc. I wanted experiment with > > writing an adapter for one of these. I looked at Gora and liked its > > straight forward mapping to a column store like HBase, Accumulo, and > > Cassandra. Also I am interested in tools that makes developers lives > > easier and allow them more flexibility (like the ability to more > > easily move their code between different data stores). Gora is one > > tool that does this. > > > > After I wrote the Accumulo backend, I took one of the Accumulo test > > suites and wrote it using Gora. I did this for a few reasons. I > > wanted to gain perspective as a Gora user and I wanted to test the > > Gora Accumulo data store at scale. Since I started off developing for > > Gora instead of using it, I was happy when I found that using Gora was > > a pleasant experience. The test suite written against Gora was less > > code than the one written against Accumulo and easier to understand. > > One thing that made it shorter was no parsing/serialization code in > > the Gora version. Also the test suite can now easily be used against > > other data stores which is really cool. > > > > Keith > > > -- *Lewis*
