I would argue that a link to a vendor sandbox or a download that makes
it easier to jump start with Apex and promotes adoption is OK. For
example Hadoop provides links to HDP and CDH sandboxes:
https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/QuickStart. Additionally, bigtop sandbox
does not seem to support VirtualBox out of the box, so why not to list
both?
Thank you,
Vlad
On 4/7/17 09:09, Thomas Weise wrote:
I disagree. Apex documentation is not the place to promote vendor
offerings.
I suggested to refer to the download page, which already contains the
DataTorrent link.
Thomas
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Pramod Immaneni <pra...@datatorrent.com>
wrote:
Hi Dean,
There aren't many good options out there for users to get an environment up
with apex apps running easily or quickly. We all know how difficult it
would be for someone new to get an application up and running even if they
had a hadoop sandbox with apex. Also, for many when they download a sandbox
they not only want to be able to run something in a few steps, but also
have easy to use tools and see something visually. My suggestion is to keep
both the sandboxes. You can put the bigtop sandbox first in the list as it
is vendor neutral.
Thanks
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Dean Lockgaard <dean.lockga...@gmail.com>
wrote:
All,
In the Sandbox section of the Apache Apex Development Environment Setup
documentation (
https://apex.apache.org/docs/apex/apex_development_setup/#sandbox),
instructions are provided for a vendor-specific Sandbox.
I would like to propose that these instructions be changed to reference
the
Apache Apex Sandbox instead, which is an Apache Bigtop build and
available
via docker at https://hub.docker.com/r/apacheapex/sandbox.
Regards,
Dean
