+1 for linking.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Arshak Navruzyan <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the single ecosystem page approach. > > If I am new to Accumulo and visit this page, I would expect to see a list > like this under the heading "What are Accumulo related projects I should > care about?" > > - Non-Java client libraries (C++, Python, Scala ...) > - Event processing interfaces (Storm ...) > - Querying (Hive, Pig ...) > - Data pipelines (Cascading/Scalding, Flume) > - Serialization (Avro, Protobuf, Thrift) > > I am sure that there are many more however as a new user something like > this seems like "table stakes". > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree with both points. > > > > -- > > Christopher L Tubbs II > > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Arshak Navruzyan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Sean, > > >> > > >> I was just using the Cascading code as an example. Not suggesting we > > >> hijack Anagha's project :) > > >> > > >> I think there is a benefit to having a "standard" set of contribs that > > have > > >> been reviewed / tested. Something similar to this: > > >> http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/ > > >> > > >> I'm concerned that letting new users go hunting for contribs on their > > own > > >> gives (which may or may not work, may or may not be documented) gives > > the > > >> Accumulo project a little bit of an incomplete feeling. Obviously > it's > > not > > >> possible to take on the responsibility to moderate every possible > > >> contribution but some basic/obvious ones would be helpful. > > >> > > >> Arshak > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > I definitely agree on the importance of a curated set of related > outside > > > projects. I'd much rather we not have links that answer the question > "How > > > do I search github for Accumulo projects?" since that doesn't really > > answer > > > the question of "What are Accumulo related projects I should care > about?" > > > > > > Maybe we shouldn't continue to separate "contrib projects" in Accumulo > > and > > > "ecosystem projects" that are hosted and run elsewhere to the extent we > > > currently do. If I'm looking for examples of things that leverage > > Accumulo > > > I probably don't want to look at two different places on our website. > > Maybe > > > we could list the Accumulo hosted contribs and the external projects on > > an > > > ecosystem page? "Powered by Accumulo" maybe? > > >
