Hello. Following the recent discussion here about what it take to add a new component to the Bigtop stack I decided to dust-off this old page [1] and update it with more up-to date expectations.
What has came out of it includes some of the original wording, plus the essence of a few posts on the original thread, that started this conversation. For me personally it was a bit tiresome explaining the same points again and again to new faces asking "How should we go about adding X to Bigtop?". It is nice to hear, but we can do a better job explaining what we'd expect from new guys on the block. The effort is at least two-fold: - provide a one-pager information to new-comers who want to join the project - help us to better understand what we are are and where we are going Please feel free to either keep the feedback here (and I will update the page) or directly contribute to it on our wiki. Thanks! Cos [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Adding+a+new+component+to+Apache+Bigtop+bigdata+stack
