Hello BigTopers! I'm brand new to the project but have had my eye on it for sometime, also spoke with Bruno and Roman about some of the things I'm working on. Looking forward to engaging with the community.
I'd like to merge my work on www.datasciencelinux.com to the BigTop Community. However, I'd like to get input from the group on the best way to go about this. Currently, it is a bare bones system fully stripped of un-needed packages + a slightly optimal kernel configuration for CPU/IO intensive things (really just me flicking some switches). I'd like to explore adding a feature to BigTop that would allow users to build a minimal system for running the hadoop ecosystem. Really, something like 'make scratch' that runs a series of targets that build a self contained system from source. But, that would be quite the patch if I came back in 3 months and said Hey! Merge me! I'm wondering if there is an incremental way to do this that would be beneficial to the project? Or should I just expect to maintain my own fork for such a request? Cheers! Nick
