Hi Christopher! On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Bigtop Developers, > > I see that Bigtop packaging for RHEL/CentOS 6 and 7 and Fedora 20. > > I was just wondering if there were any motivation within this community to > put some of that packaging effort into those upstream communities, either > to replace the packaging that BigTop provides, or to compliment it. > > I'm currently a package maintainer for Fedora and EPEL (which is maintained > by the Fedora community), for Hadoop, ZooKeeper, and Accumulo, and I think > these Big Data packages could really use some additional support from more > packagers. I also think that perhaps we can deduplicate some effort. > > Is anybody interested in helping with the packaging in the Fedora/EPEL > communities to support Fedora and EL distros?
I'm definitely very much interested in this. Especially since you have the kind of deep expertise of being an official maintainer. In fact, that's actually the biggest issue that we faced last time we were thinking about upstreaming Bigtop packaging into Linux distros -- packaging guidelines. For better or for worth, Bigtop ended up defining the layout and policies for all major commercial Hadoop offerings and changing that may not be much of an option. If we keep Bigtop packaging the way it is I'm not sure how much good will we will get on the Linux distro side. Examples off the top of my head here include: 1. the way Bigtop packaging deals with jars 2. the way Bigtop packaging deals with /etc So perhaps, a good first step for you would be to pick a simple package (lets say Zookeeper) and tell us how much of Fedora packaging guidelines we're still violating and how much of that is non-negotiable vs. could be fixed. Thanks, Roman.
