Hi all,
A group of us in central MD met today at a local business (which was
gracious enough to donate a conference room today) and enjoy each
others' presence while hacking on some code.
In the spirit of no private discussions, I made sure to keep a record of
the relevant Accumulo talking points we had. We had myself, Billie,
Keith, Mike Walch, Mike Wall, Christopher, and Ed "Avocado" Coleman (he
asked for that one) in attendance.
# Where does 1.8 stand?
I made a quick pass over the 1.8 JIRA issues trying to write down what
we've already done and what is outstanding. The highlights mentioned:
* Tablet locator public API
* Atomic add/remove authorizations API for Accumulo users
* Automated Accumulo Iterator test harness
* Upgrade to Thrift 0.9.3
* Ports for services are moved out of the Linux ephemeral port range
(the monitor 50095 -> 9995)
* Internal WAL state-tracking changes (Eric's uber change about how we
record WALs in the metadata table).
* Introduction of a daemon script for Accumulo services and pidfile
support (!)
* Scanner context-classpath feature from Dave (not sure details)
* Per-table Sampling from Keith (needs a test according to him)
There were a couple of things mentioned that people want to try to also
get into a 1.8, identified by "owner"
* Christopher: no-chop merges
* Keith: A public API for reading/writing RFiles
* Josh: Finish monitor improvements (not sure about this one, it really
fell off my radar)
* Mike Wall: Split out examples from "core" repository.
# RFile read/write public API
Just before I stepped out, Keith was giving a brief explanation of a new
API that he's been working on to read and write RFiles directly.
https://github.com/keith-turner/accumulo/tree/rfile-api
He mentioned that we should expect some JIRA issue/pull-request from him
soon.
# Incubator discussion
We also had a general discussion about how the incubator process at the
ASF works. Billie had some great information to pass along, and I tried
to chime in now and again with things I've learned :)
- Josh
