Heya folks, Per the title, what do you think about generating more easily consumed artifacts in our releases? We already do all the hard parts of generating binary packages and signing them. Seems like a simple extension to add some additional convenience artifacts. Other Apache projects do this, including hosting release repositories.
Our story is made a little more complex due to dependencies on ZK and HDFS, but I think we could make a strong argument for helping those projects produce the same for their users. IMHO, by not building these (and not providing init scripts, and so on), we're basically telling our users they shouldn't use Apache releases in prod. For reference: - https://github.com/tcurdt/jdeb#debian-packages-in-java - https://github.com/OpenTSDB/opentsdb/tree/master/build-aux - https://github.com/OpenTSDB/tcollector/tree/master/debian - http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging -n
