On our "Build & Install" wiki page[1] we have instructions on build HAWQ based on the docker image "mayjojo/hawq-dev".
This is very nice for quick start for new developers. A couple thoughts and comments. 1. It does not come with HDFS and YARN preinstalled which means that you can build but you cannot deploy and test. This in turn limits the utility of the docker image. It would be very valuable to have the dev environment have all the dependencies necessary to run HAWQ. Or, alternatively, provide some minimal instructions for how to install the needed dependencies. Ultimately the dev environment should be sufficient to get all the way through a `hawq init cluster` and be able to successfully run a `make installcheck`. 2. It might be nice to supply the Dockerfile that generated the image so that other people could make specific modifications based on their environment needs. 3. The dependencies seem to include boost. I thought we didn't need boost for the more recent versions of libhdfs? Is there something specific introducing the boost dependency? Cheers, Caleb [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61320026
