Guys, BTW, if you need help or a mentor in Apache Incubator-ville for MRUnit, I would be happy to help.
Cheers, Chris On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Eric Sammer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Eric Sammer wrote: >> >> - allow mrunit to have its own release cycle. This is, I think, the most >>> >> >> important. >>> >> >> If you submit your work to Apache we can evaluate it for inclusion in the >> 0.20.100 branch to get your changes released in a timely manner. > > > I'm thinking in general (beyond the next immediate release). Independent of > where mrunit goes, I think it should leave the contrib tree to facilitate > light weight releases (the dependency on Hadoop proper is a public facing > API - a pure client). I think most projects could benefit from this with the > exception of things that are tightly coupled to Hadoop releases or touch > non-public APIs. > > >> I would actually prefer to move it to Extras or Incubator and leave this >>> within the ASF. >>> >> >> Extras is **NOT** inside of the ASF. Extras is a source hosting system for >> non-Apache projects that are related to Apache projects. > > > Got it. Thanks for correcting me. I only mentioned it because someone > suggested it to me initially. > > >> Right now, I picked github because of the ability to easily >> collaborate with others (and to use git). >> > > I agree that it is unfortunate that Apache doesn't yet support read-write >> git access. However, you'll find that building a community is easier at >> Apache than at github. >> > >> -- Owen >> > > > > -- > Eric Sammer > twitter: esammer > data: www.cloudera.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++