Hi LiFu! I'm Jim, and I started contributing to the Impala project in 2015.
When we were working on learning about Apache and ASF standards back when Impala was incubating, this question came up. The analogy that we learned was that Apache projects are not, themselves, owned by anyone other than the Foundation, they sometimes rely on software projects, such as Microsoft Windows, that are owned by another corporation. While that's the organizational rationale, I think the community would welcome a build and deploy process that used only officially released snapshots from the other Apache projects that Impala depends upon. I think this is a question of someone taking the time to put in the work, similarly to how Impala has supported only x86-64 for years, but there are new efforts to make it work on AArch64. On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:38 AM LiFu He <hel...@apache.org> wrote: > At the same time, I'm curious why an open source project relies on a > business product, though I understand that there are some historical > reasons. Could anybody share more info? > > > On 2020/07/07 12:46:44, LiFu He <hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have a question that why Impala relies on the CDH/CDP > > distribution(hadoop/hive/hbase/sentry/ranger)? And is it possible to > switch > > to Apache version? Thanks in advance. > > > > > > --helifu > > >
