Makes total sense and I'll be eager and available to review it and cast my VOTE.
Cheers, Chris On 2/26/13 10:13 PM, "Adam Berry" <[email protected]> wrote: >So with Bob's feature outline, I've been thinking a little more about >this. > >If we want to do a developer focused release, it seems like initially >targeting the 0.23/2.0 line would make sense, and then add back in the >support to the 1.x stable line later on as we solidify the initial feature >set. > >So this would just be shifting the current features (hdfs browsing, job >launching, basic project source support) to support that target. > >Thoughts? > >Cheers, >Adam > >On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sounds great, Adam. +1 to releasing early, and often. >> >> We have a good opportunity here to release even a developer focused >> release, and then improve docs with more releases that we do. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> On 2/15/13 7:54 PM, "Adam Berry" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < >> >[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hey Adam, >> >> >> >> Great work! Do you think it's now time for a first release? Even if >>it's >> >> not fully functional, and even if it doesn't support everything you >> >> mention in paragraph #2 below, it will be a great incremental >>milestone. >> >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2/11/13 8:29 PM, "Adam Berry" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >Hey guys, >> >> > >> >> >So first, let me say thanks for the patience as I worked on this. >> >> > >> >> >I've split up the original single plugin into a few logical units >>as we >> >> >discussed before. I've thrown up the beginnings of a wiki page, >> >> >http://wiki.apache.org/hdt/HDTGettingStarted with the beginnings of >> how >> >> to >> >> >grab this and work with it. The maven/tycho build support still >>needs >> >>to >> >> >go >> >> >in, but I should be able to get to that this week. >> >> > >> >> >So now we are ready to start attacking multi hadoop version >>support! We >> >> >need multi version clients for launching jobs on hadoop clusters, >>also >> >>for >> >> >interacting with hdfs on the same clusters, those will need the >> >>connectors >> >> >that we discussed before. The other spot is in the jars that get >>that >> >> >added >> >> >to the classpath for MapReduce projects. >> >> > >> >> >Although the plugins are logically split, some of the classes in >>them >> >>need >> >> >some more work to better split the work between core and ui, so >>keeping >> >> >refactoring in mind as would be good I think. For now, the Hadoop >> >>imports >> >> >are satisfied using the org.apache.hadoop.eclipse plugin, which >>bundles >> >> >Hadoop 1.0.4. >> >> > >> >> >I've added some JIRAs as trackers for this feature work, so feel >>free >> >>to >> >> >jump in to the source and chime in! >> >> > >> >> >Cheers, >> >> >Adam >> >> >> >> Hey guys, >> > >> >sorry for the delay in responding, I was struck down by the flu. >> > >> >So I'm really not sure here, so comments and thoughts are more than >> >welcome. >> > >> >We can probably make the current set of tools work with 1.0 without too >> >much trouble, but we would also need some tests and documentation >>before >> >release, not necessarily exhaustive, but at least something. Pursuing a >> >release quickly would likely help to drive interest and momentum for >>the >> >tools. >> > >> >I think I'm leaning in favor of doing that, gets us used to doing >>apache >> >releases, and the other pieces of infrastructure, and would let us get >> >visible within the hadoop community sooner. >> > >> >I believe its still important to start work on the multi version >>support >> >as >> >soon as possible, but I think we can do that in parallel to the >>release of >> >some tools that support the 1.0 line. >> > >> >So let me know what you guys think, and we'll go from there. >> > >> >Cheers, >> >Adam >> >>
