In light of Aditya's explanation I think this is a good way to clarify the relationship between Drill, Hive and Hbase. These are core plugins that we are planning to support completely, just as we do with the HDFS API in the FileSystemPlugin, which is currently a part of the exec module.
+1 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Aditya <[email protected]> wrote: > I have always interpreted "contrib" as an experimental code which are > provided "as is"[1], not fully validated by the main project and possibly > has not reached the same maturity as the rest of the project. > > It will help us in communicate the maturity of few plugins like hbase, hive > and mongo as such while accepting more user contributions say cassandra, > couchbase into Drill's code base. > > [1] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7328852/what-are-apache-contrib-modules > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Unless we move contrib out of the build (and to a different repo), I'm > not > > sure what the change really means. Thoughts on this? > > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Parth Chandra <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I'd be in favor of doing this in the 1.2 release cycle. > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Aditya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Few of the storage plugins like HBase and Hive have matured enough to > > be > > > > moved out of contrib and into the mainline, probably under > > > "exec/storage". > > > > > > > > If people think that it is time to do that, I can take this up. > > > > > > > > aditya... > > > > > > > > > >
