Thanks for offering to provide doc-patches Jagat! On May 7, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Jagat wrote:
> Hello Bobby, > > Yes i will file couple of JIRAs and work on them in coming few days to > write how to setup things , include basics which were very good in old > documentation, yes there are many good things which we can take up from > 1.0.2 documentation also. > > Few days back Yahoo team was saying that they can donate documentation to > community which although old can be improved on to include within Apache. > May be we can get some update on confirmation for permission to use for the > same. > > One of the project which is good in documentation ( wiki ) is Apache Mahout > we can learn from them , lots of extensible references , presentations , > tutorials all at one place at wiki to refer. > > > > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > >> I agree that better documentation is almost always needed. The problem is >> in finding the time to really make this happen. If you or anyone else here >> wants to help out with this effort please feel free to file JIRAs and >> submit patches to improve the documentation. Even if all the patch is, is >> a copy/paste of information from the 1.0.2 documentation that is still >> relevant for 2.0. >> >> --Bobby Evans >> >> On 5/4/12 2:21 PM, "Jagat" <jagatsi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> As Apache Hadoop community is ready to release the next 2.0 alpha version >> of Hadoop , i would like to bring attention towards need to make better >> documentation of the tutorials and examples for the same. >> >> Just one short example >> >> See the Single Node Setup tutorials for v >> 1.x<http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r1.0.2/single_node_setup.html>and >> v >> 0.23< >> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.23.1/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/SingleCluster.html >>> , >> you can say 0.23 author is in hurry with keeping all things in >> assumption that reader knows everything what and where to do. >> >> We should spend some time on documentation , with so many beautiful >> features coming it would be great if you guys plan some special hackathon >> meetings to improve its documentation , code examples so that people can >> understand how to use them effectively. >> >> At present only two people can understand 0.23 , those who wrote the code >> and the other one is java compiler who is verifying its code :) >> >> *Tom White , *I request if you are reading this message , please pick-up >> your pen again to write Hadoop Definitive Guide edition 4th dedicated to >> next release for greater benefit of community. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
