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
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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