My concern with this is it appears to put Apache in the business of
picking the right Hadoop vendors. What about IBM, Pivotal, etc.? I get
that the actual desire here is to make things easy for users, and that
the original three packages offered (Hadoop1, CDH4, Hadoop2) will cover
95% of users. I like that. I just don't know how to do this and avoid
the appearance of favoritism.
Perhaps the next best step is to ask on incubator-general and see if
there is an Apache wide policy or if there needs to be one.
Alan.
Robert Metzger <mailto:[email protected]>
August 18, 2014 at 6:54
Hi,
I think we all agree that our project benefits from providing pre-compiled
binaries for different hadoop distributions.
I've drafted an extension of the current download page, that I would
suggest to use after the release: http://i.imgur.com/MucW2HD.png
As you can see, users can directly pick the Flink version they want (its
not going to show the CDH4 package there) or they can choose from the
table
with the most popular (in my opinion) vendor distributions.
The different links still point to the "hadoop1", "hadoop2" binaries,
but I
don't think this is highlighting any hadoop vendors.
What do you think?
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]>
Henry Saputra <mailto:[email protected]>
August 15, 2014 at 14:45
Ah sorry Alan, did not see your reply to Owen.
Mea culpa from me.
- Henry
Alan Gates <mailto:[email protected]>
August 15, 2014 at 14:15
Sorry, apparently this was unclear, as others asked the same
question. Flink hasn't had any Apache releases yet. I was referring
to the proposed release that Robert sent out,
http://people.apache.org/~rmetzger/flink-0.6-incubating-rc7/
Alan.
Sean Owen <mailto:[email protected]>
August 15, 2014 at 11:26
PS, sorry for being dense, but I don't see vendor packages at
http://flink.incubator.apache.org/downloads.html ?
Is it this page?
http://flink.incubator.apache.org/docs/0.6-SNAPSHOT/building.html
That's more benign, just helping people rebuild for certain distros if
desired. Can the example be generified to refer to a fictional "ACME
Distribution"? But a note here and there about gotchas building for
certain versions and combos seems reasonable.
I also find this bit in the build script, although vendor-specific, is
a small nice convenience for users:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/blob/master/pom.xml#L195
Owen O'Malley <mailto:[email protected]>
August 15, 2014 at 11:01
As a mentor, I agree that vendor specific packages aren't appropriate for
the Apache site. (Disclosure: I work at Hortonworks.) Working with the
vendors to make packages available is great, but they shouldn't be hosted
at Apache.
.. Owen
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