Hi folks. Thanks to @RJ for the seed for this in one of our rambling conversations, also..... My question:
*** Is it capable/interesting/relevant to bigtop to packaging a broader spectrum of the apache ecosystem *** Here some (half baked) rationale for this idea 0 - we recently broadened from the scope of "just hadoop". 1 - " big data " per se is starting to blend with other layers of the stack, like messaging, databases. its kind of tricky to draw a line, IMO, and will be more tricky going forward. 2 - other projects (i.e. derby, groovy, ...) are highly synergistic w/ bigtop might find a great home here, which is OS neutral and has lots of great tooling . 3 - gives use scope to do bigger and more interesting things inside bigtop, like deploying an entire full stack data driven environment. not even sure how feasible this is (maybe could partially be done with partnerships with collaboration amongst other packaging communities). but just thought id put the idea out there . -- jay vyas
