What do y'all think of creating a standardized Spark development environment, perhaps encoded as a Vagrantfile, and publishing it under `dev/`?
The goal would be to make it easier for new developers to get started with all the right configs and tools pre-installed. If we use something like Vagrant, we may even be able to make it so that a single Vagrantfile creates equivalent development environments across OS X, Linux, and Windows, without having to do much (or any) OS-specific work. I imagine for committers and regular contributors, this exercise may seem pointless, since y'all are probably already very comfortable with your workflow. I wonder, though, if any of you think this would be worthwhile as a improvement to the "new Spark developer" experience. Nick
