Hi everyone, it's been a long time since I contributed and I'm sorry. I hope everyone is well and it's great to still see some familiar names on the mailing list.
1,5 years ago a customer asked me to write a "better" Region Normalizer and so I did. I have to admit that I can't remember all the details on what we did but I did clean up quite a bit. It might not all be backwards compatible. My initial plan was to create a PR to contribute all of the changes upstream but by now I have to admit that I can't find the time. So what I at least wanted to do is to link it here in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/stackabletech/hbase-normalizer - It can optionally (try to) skip Phoenix tables which have salt_buckets enabled without relying on Phoenix libraries - It has many more configuration knobs - Better logging and documentation - It does not include the changes made by Charles in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27496 but those should be easy to integrate - The initial goal was to backport the HBase 3 normalizer to HBase 2 (CDH 5.16 version) Anyone has my permission/blessing to take the code and contribute it upstream. Taboola - the customer in question - has also approved and I'd like to thank them for this! I'm happy to answer questions. Thank you! Cheers, Lars
