Hello all, I thought while I'm making progress on the initial split of the code, that we could take a moment to talk about a rough early outline.
So in the original project proposal, we laid out the initial goals of the project (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HadoopDevelopmentToolsProposal). Basically right now the features are MapReduce development (wizards, hadoop launches) and HDFS access, so getting those working with multiple versions of hadoop would be the first target. I think we could make this happen, including documentation and tests in the next few months, by end of Q1 would be a nice (yes, its also aggressive) thing to shoot for. With a release in hand we can target various places to grow our visibility (as Bob brought up) and hence grow the community. At that point I think we will start to feel where to go next, things like Pig are attractive targets for tools, but as we drive and build the community the direction will become clearer. So what else would people like to throw into the ring here? Cheers, Adam
