+1. This is certainly very useful work.
Ashish On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Carl Steinbach <cwsteinb...@gmail.com>wrote: > +1 > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ashutosh Chauhan <hashut...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Harish and Prajkta are doing some cool work over at > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-896 IMO its a very useful > > feature for the community and our user base. Harish and Prajkta are > making > > steady progress on this for much last year in their github repo > > https://github.com/hbutani/hive and much of the feature is now > functional. > > However, its quite a bit of work and new code which will take some time > > before being ready for trunk. I propose that we create a new branch so > that > > further development of this happens in apache repo instead of github > repo. > > This gets us few benefits: > > a) It will avoid the situation we ended up with HiveServer2 where a > useful > > new functionality came but in one big patch which made its review and > thus > > inclusion in mainline harder than it should have been. > > b) Obvious advantages of development getting done in apache as oppose to > > github which are: > > i) It will make it easier for apache hive community members > interested > > in this work (like me) to follow progress. > > ii) It will make it easier for apache hive community members > interested > > in this work to contribute. > > iii) It will make it easier for apache community members to review > the > > work and provide feedback. > > > > I further propose that we follow Commit-than-review policy for this > feature > > branch which will enable contributors to make rapid progress without > > waiting for lengthy review cycles. Hive committers interested in work can > > either review branch any time they want to provide feedback or can wait > > till contributors declare work is complete and make a proposal to merge > in > > trunk and than review it than. This anyway is a throwaway branch not > > intended to make releases out of it. > > > > Unless I hear any objections, I will create a branch over the weekend. > > > > Thanks, > > Ashutosh > > >
