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Ted Dunning commented on PIG-2097:
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Frankly, hbase already has this covered. The hbase master process, normally
called hmaster is often mistyped or misread has hamster.
It is very distressing to see messages like "Hamster out of memory leads to
crash".
> Rename Pig to "Hamster"
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>
> Key: PIG-2097
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2097
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: site
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Milind Bhandarkar
> Assignee: Olga Natkovich
> Fix For: 0.10
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> Original Estimate: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 1h
>
> When Pig was incubated, I remember a few folks expressing religious
> reservations about the name. Now that the Hadoop ecosystem is becoming more
> mature (i.e. GigaOm, TechCrunch etc know what Hadoop is), I believe the
> following conversation on Twitter should convince everyone that Pig should be
> renamed.
> @alanfgates: @rjurney I look forward to seeing a #Pig app in AppStore
> @rjurney: @squarecog @alanfgates Let's go for it.
> @squarecog: @alanfgates @rjurney the way the market is going, I bet the three
> of us could get a good 5 Mil funding for that.
> @rjurney: @squarecog @alanfgates Since nobody else did a Pig company, it's
> sort of our moral duty.
> @techmilnd: @rjurney @squarecog @alanfgates ummm.. Could there be a reason
> why there are no "rumors" of a pig spinoff? ;-)
> @rjurney: @techmilind @squarecog @alanfgates It's gotta be the name.
> @techmilind: @rjurney @squarecog @alanfgates Pig not kosher ? Ok, I will file
> a jira to rename it "hamster". All cool hadoop projects start with H anyway.
> @squarecog: @techmilind favorited.
> So, there you go. I already have a +1 from a committer (although outside of
> this Apache thing.)
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