Sounds very productive! Sucks to be 3 timezones away from the action :( Will any other Accumulo devs be attending ApacheCon this year? I'm certain that I could organize some space fairly nearby for a similar event.
-Russ On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:07 PM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
