Great, thanks! When you create the patches, please add that person to our MAINTAINERS file as part of the patch.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi RJ, > > Yes, we are going to nominate a maintainer and will ensure Apex related > build issues will be resolved. > > Thanks, > Thomas > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:00 PM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Is there someone who would be willing to take responsibility for >> maintaining the Apache Apex packages in Bigtop? >> >> We generally like to find a maintainer for each package and add them to >> our maintainers list. This way we know who to contact if a build fails and >> blocks a release. If there is no maintainer (and the build has problems), >> we use that as grounds for removing the package from Bigtop. >> >> Thanks, >> RJ >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Thomas, >>> >>> Thanks for your interest in bigtop and getting apex componentized and >>> supported in bigtop. >>> >>> Some general getting started info on bigtop contributions: >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+Contribute >>> >>> Would start to look at src of the project at a few of the current >>> components. >>> >>> /bigtop/bigtop-packages/src/common >>> /bigtop/bigtop-packages/src/deb >>> /bigtop/bigtop-packages/src/rpm >>> >>> That will be the basics of build and packaging. If datatorrent has some >>> existing rpm, deb setups can start with that and tweak to conform to bigtop >>> practices if needed. >>> >>> For deploy/config side of things can look at references in: >>> >>> /bigtop/bigtop-deploy/puppet/modules/* >>> >>> If you guys don’t have existing puppet resources feel free to ping the >>> list and one of a few in the group can help get you guys going with that. >>> >>> Also take a look at the root .bom file (/bigtop/bigtop.bom) and look at >>> how you guys might define apex and some of its possible build dependencies >>> (ie: apex requires that hdfs be running underneath it) >>> >>> After build and packaging going can start to look at some relevant apex >>> smoke tests that might already be available and included, some references >>> there at: >>> >>> /bigtop/bigtop-tests/smoke-tests/* >>> >>> Ping list as you guys dig in with any questions/issues >>> >>> Nate >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Thomas Weise [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:21 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Apache Apex as part of Bigtop >>> >>> Dear Bigtop community, >>> >>> I'm member of the Apache Apex (incubating) PPMC and wanted to explore >>> the possibility of getting Apex into Bigtop. Our web site is at: >>> >>> http://apex.incubator.apache.org/ >>> >>> Apex was originally developed at DataTorrent since 2012 and entered >>> incubation last August. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Thomas >>> >>> >> >
