I wanted to contribute a while back, but there was hardly any support on new contributors and especially the ones who wanted to write larger features and bugs.
Just my 2c On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:16 PM Sailesh Mukil <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:22 PM Grant Henke <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I have started a document for blog post ideas/topics here: > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/12QFRIhNDMoOI1kOQBgch64xYJ9t6U > > byVt1D3NaTl7lI/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > > Nice list, Grant. Actually I think that quarterly email would probably make > > for a better blog post instead and I've added it as a suggestion on that > > doc. > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:04 PM Mauricio Aristizabal <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > I was disappointed that Strata SJ 2018 didn't have a single session on > > > Kudu, there were no committers in attendance that I could tell, and it > > > wasn't being highlighted at all in the Cloudera booth. Between Strata > > and > > > ScalaDays I must have enthusiastically mentioned the product to 15 people > > > and none had heard of it. > > > > > > > Hmm, that is disappointing, and a bit surprising. Perhaps everybody thought > > everybody else was going to submit... actually I had intended to submit a > > talk proposal to Strata this year but got busy and missed the deadline. :( > > > > I wonder if folks using Kudu would like to present on their use case? I'm > > sure conference-goers would like to hear from more people using Kudu "in > > anger" (hopefully not angrily). > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:59 PM Sailesh Mukil <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > A suggestion to add on to the easily downloadable pre-built packages, is > > to > > > have easily accessible/downloadable example test-data that's fairly > > > representative of real world datasets (but it doesn't have to be too > > > large). Additionally, we can write tutorials in kudu/examples/ that use > > > this test data, to give new users a better feel for the system. > > > > > > That sounds useful. Any ideas on where we could find such a data set? > > > > Starting with a small scale factor of TPC-H and TPC-DS might not be a bad > idea. > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:59 AM Tim Robertson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > ++1 on the mini cluster > > > Perhaps include a docker image build at the same time which presumably > > > wouldn't be much effort? > > > > > > > I'm not really sure there is a lot of overlap between creating a Docker > > image and the kind of relocatable artifacts I'm trying to build, aside from > > the actual compiling part. But I think it would be valuable for Docker > > users to be able to easily pull down a Kudu image. > > > > > > > l'll be happy to contribute on the Java / maven related parts to that. I > > > will use this for the testing framework for the Apache Beam KuduIO and > > will > > > certainly help test / write a blog. > > > > > > > I don't really know how to handle the Maven part where we unpack the > > tarball and set it up somewhere so we can invoke it from the > > KuduMiniCluster. Maybe it that would require writing a custom Maven plugin? > > > > I'd love to see a blog post about how to use Kudu with Beam! > > > > Mike > >
