Hi folks! With 2.0 releases coming up, I'd like to revive our prior discussion on the readiness of the hbase-spark module for downstream users.
We've had a ticket for tracking the milestones set up for inclusion in branch-1 releases for about 1.5 years: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14160 We still haven't gotten all of the blocker issues completed, AFAIK. Is anyone interested in volunteering to knock the rest of these out? If they aren't, shall we plan to leave hbase-spark in master and revert it from branch-2 once it forks for the HBase 2.0 release line? This feature isn't a blocker for 2.0; just as we've been planning to add the hbase-spark module to some 1.y release we can also include it in a 2.1+ release. This does appear to be a feature our downstream users could benefit from, so I'd hate to continue the current situation where no official releases include it. This is especially true now that we're looking at ways to handle changes between Spark 1.6 and Spark 2.0 in HBASE-16179. - busbey
