+ Jarek Jarcec Cecho who was missed in the last email. There is a reason why the Sqoop2 release is called 1.99.x (not even the 2.0 alpha) because it needs some more features to be called Sqoop2. Currently there are some customer used Sqoop 1 feature that are not in Sqoop 1.99.x.
That said, I am not wedded to this view. I might have misunderstood the charter to mean things differently than what you intended. Venkat On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Mark Grover <[email protected]>wrote: > I am inclined against making Sqoop1 the default version in Bigtop precisely > because of the point Andrew raised. Moreover, we had some good reasons when > we moved to Sqoop2 that resonated with Bigtop's charter of a cutting edge > distribution and helping in the stabilization of Hadoop ecosystem projects. > More details at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-805 > > As far as adding back Sqoop1 back to Bigtop is concerned, this is a > community led project, so if the community wants it, it will happen:-) The > general sentiment when introducing Sqoop2 was that there wasn't a need for > having 2 versions of Sqoop. From poking around, I think we did the same for > Flume when migrating from Flume OG to Flume NG ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-323). > > As far as Sqoop2 being preview releases, one could argue that the Hadoop > releases bigtop bundles are preview as well. In my personal opinion, the > charter of Bigtop, is to be that very cutting edge well tested distribution > that helps in stabilizing them along the way. Personally, I feel like > Sqoop2 being default falls in line with that. Given the above, I would > personally vote for Sqoop2 being present in BOM. And, adding Sqoop1 back in > as non-default Sqoop if there is traction in the community. > > I am open to feedback, though. What do others think? > > Mark > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Venkat Ranganathan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I understand. The discussion we had was around the current distributions > > ship with Sqoop 1.x as the default sqoop product (primarily because > Sqoop 2 > > is in preview releases currently. The current focus of the team is to > > bring sqoop 2 to fruition quickly but Sqoop 1.x is the release that > > customers currently are using and hence the suggestion. > > > > Venkat > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Venkat Ranganathan < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I would also suggest we revert back to > > > > making Sqoop 1 the default sqoop version > > > > > > > > > > Wouldn't that make an upgrade from Bigtop 0.6 to 0.7 a Sqoop downgrade? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > > > > - Andy > > > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein > > > (via Tom White) > > > > > >
