In Pig we created a separate section of the repository (called
piggybank) where we stored user contributed user defined functinos
(UDFs). The contract was that users needed to provide unit tests so
that as changes were made to Pig the committers could make sure that the
UDFs in piggybank still worked. Committers weren't responsible for
fixing piggybank code, though if the change was minor they often would.
We distribute piggybank with Pig as a convenience to users.
The downside to this is users can't self-manage it. It requires a
committer to review and commit people's code. Though we always kept the
bar quite low (just make sure it has tests and isn't completely nuts).
But still people complained that they had to wait for us to review it.
The upside was that since committers had to review it, it didn't become
a dumping ground.
Alan.
Robert Metzger <mailto:[email protected]>
June 25, 2014 at 7:50 AM
Hi,
our current repository contains a set of examples that show different
aspects of the system.
We recently got a pull request to add a graph centrality/closeness
implementation to Flink (
https://github.com/stratosphere/stratosphere/pull/904). The program is too
complex to be added as an example. In addition to that, we don't want to
maintain actual applications on top of Flink.
I have a GitHub repository that also contains a few other Flink programs
that need a new home.
I would like to provide users an infrastructure in our project to host
such
code and establish a community around it.
What is the Apache way of handling such a situation (infrastructure wise)?
On GitHub, I would create a new repository called
"application-library" and
link it from the website.
We could also create an orphan branch in our current repository.
What do you think?
Robert
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