I'd be +1 to making them an independent repo still controlled by the PMC. Whether they need to be a formal subproject or not I think could go either way.
-- Sean Busbey On Feb 18, 2016 14:57, "Michael Wall" <[email protected]> wrote: > Talking with Keith and Christopher today, they mentioned it might be useful > to pull the examples out of Accumulo into a separate project with it's own > repo. Here are some talking points > > - Provide an easy means to run examples against the MiniAccumuloCluster. > > - Give users the ability to run examples without having to worry with the > rest of the codebase. > > - Allow testing of the same examples against different releases. > > - Could force the examples to use the external APIs only if we reorg'd the > packages. > > - Potentially fold the wikisearch into this examples projects and bring it > back up to date. > > To this end, I started with master > (e2055020219e6d56afb8d19b5a8eea519599f8b1) and deleted everything that > didn't seem to be related to examples. Very early stages, but it is pushed > to https://github.com/mjwall/accumulo-examples. The command 'mvn clean > test' works, but the default Accumulo version is 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT. I was > surprised that 'mvn clean test -Daccumulo.version=1.6.4' and 'mvn clean > test -Daccumulo.version=1.7.0' both failed to compile, but in different > ways. > > Interested in everyone's thoughts. > > Mike >
