Thanks for the information Jacques. That clarifies. Hope to myself be part of some contribution at some point!
Regards, H.I. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey There > > Welcome to the land of Drill. Drill is still an incubating project > and I a number of contributors are primarily focused on building their > individual pieces. We also do regular weekly Tuesday standups that > have been very helpful. However, we've been lax on reporting those > discussions back to the list and need to do a better job. (Feel to > drop by at any of them if you'd like). > > We're focused on an alpha now. Once that is in place, I think you'll > see an increase in list activity. > > When will Drill be ready for primetime? We're a ways out still. > Unless you're a developer or a passionate early adopter, you'll > probably want to wait for a beta... which I would estimate for the > Q3/Q4 timeframe. > > As far as visualization tools, we're really focused on JDBC and ODBC > and standard SQL so those tools should work well as we get further > along. Additionally, one of the core Pentaho contributors also > contributes on Drill so you'll likely see a strong interoperability > between those systems. > > Thanks, > Jacques > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Hadoop Inquirer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are hoping to use Drill for a visualization initiative within our > > organization. > > > > However, the mailing list seems to be heavily underused compared to other > > projects in the Hadoop ecosystem. hopefully, you guys are still actively > > developing this. > > > > Can someone comment on any plans for: > > > > 1) an upcoming stable release, and > > 2) interaction with popular visualization tools like Tableau, Pentaho > etc. > > > > Regards, > > H.I. >
