I didn't realize that you and Roman were involved with Zeppelin until I saw your emails on the Zeppelin dev list today.
I see a lot of big data community interest in more user-friendly interfaces and visualization software -- following what the Python community has done with iPython notebook and friends. Unfortunately, many of the popular solutions are proprietary. I would love to push on open source efforts and open that area up. Zeppelin could make a great addition to BigTop. It would provide BigTop with a competitive feature while also raising the profile of Zeppelin. Zeppelin also needs more testing and cleaning up. I've had trouble getting it working (see the Zeppelin user mailing list). Good opportunity to get in there and start hacking on the code. >From Red Hat's perspective, packaging Zeppelin will require some work. Fedora, et al. require that each JAR is provided by a single RPM. Likewise, we'd have to work on splitting out the Node.js dependencies so they can depend on Fedora-available JARs. I realize that BigTop's packaging isn't so strict, but I think packaging in BigTop is a good first step, and we can work with the Zeppelin community to work out any kinks in their build system related to packaging. I see a win-win situation. I also see an opportunity for BigTop to once again prove that it's on the cutting edge. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks RJ! Actually, Zeppelin is quite interesting. If you look at their > proposal here https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZeppelinProposal > it says under Initial Goals > > ".... adding Zeppelin distribution to Apache Bigtop" > > So, I guess it's mutual interest! Would be nice to hear your thoughts on > that! > Thanks, > Cos > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 07:49AM, RJ Nowling wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I went to Spark Summit East 2015. Many of the talks emphasized notebooks > > and visualization products for Spark. My Red Hat team found a few open > > source alternatives, which I wanted to share for others who might be > > interested: > > > > * Apache Zeppelin (incubating) - https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/ > > * Jove Jupyter - https://github.com/jove-sh/jove-jupyter-frontend > > * Spark Notebook - https://github.com/andypetrella/spark-notebook > > > > We're currently trying to get Apache Zeppelin working. I'll report more > as > > I learn more. > > > > RJ >
