Hello. I want to start the discussion about the near future of the project. Here's my line of thinking. The MapReduce paradigm is clearly dying out and is getting replaced more and more either by new MapReduce-like platforms (think Spark) or by direct streaming processing and in-memory systems, completely going around the batch.
MRUnit is definitely a good project to help developers to deal with MR realities before the code hits the cluster. But evidently there isn't much activity going on as dev@ list traffic (literally <10 JIRA messages/month) [1] and line of releases indicate. According to reporter.apache.org the last release had happened on May 2012, but I found some email evidence that 1.1.0 was out in June 2014 [2](?) Hence, is it a time perhaps to move MRUnit to attic [3]? There's no shame in it. If anything, it is a part of the natural cycle of any software project. And most important, the code base will not go anywhere and can be resurrected any time if there's a community to work on it. Thoughts? Cos 1. https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mrunit-dev/ 2. http://is.gd/mgFXsC 3. http://attic.apache.org/
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