Sounds great. Lets do it first thing after the 0.16.x branch.
St.Ack
Bryan Duxbury wrote:
All,
I've been crawling around the HBase codebase for a little while now,
and I think I have a proposal that would make it easer to find your
way around in the codebase in general.
I think that we should make three new packages below
org.apache.hadoop.hbase, client, master, and regionserver. The client
package would contain HTable, client-side scanning stuff, HBaseAdmin,
the MapReduce-related stuff, the shell, REST and Thrift. The master
package would contain HMaster, maybe Leases, any other classes that
belong to master. The regionserver package would contain
HRegionServer, HRegion, HStore and all its subclasses (HStoreFile,
etc). Whatever is left over should be stuff that's pretty common to
all the sub-packages, so we can either leave that in the hbase
package, or push it down into a common subpackage.
This would make it much easier for new contributors to decide where to
look for stuff, as well as make it more obvious what the architectural
divisions of the system are. To boot, it would allow us to reorganize
our tests into similar subpackages, which has the advantage of
allowing us to think about, for instance, client tests passing/failing
as a group, rather than scattered alphabetically throughout the entire
suite.
This idea would probably erase HADOOP-2518, or at least change the
goal to factor HStore down into o.a.h.h.regionserver.store.
Comments?
-Bryan
