Hello A few of us at Hortonworks have been doing some initial work on a DAG ApplicationMaster. We recently committed to the TEZ svn in the TEZ-1 branch ( http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/tez/branches/TEZ-1/ ).
Going forwards, we will be working directly off this branch. There is a basic INSTALL.txt to help folks get started in trying out the new DAG AM. For build instructions, please refer to Hadoop's build instructions ( http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/trunk/BUILDING.txt?view=log ) until we add a more refined one. Over the next few days, we plan to create JIRAs for pending bugs/open items in the DAG AM. We hope that folks will start jumping in with contributions. thanks -- Hitesh