Hi Jeff, Could you put me in contact with the folks from yahoo you are talking to?
Thanks, E14 On May 6, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote: > Hey, > > The discussion this week about the 0.20.203.0 release has done a great job > of highlighting some issues in our development process; it's also done a > great job of lifting our mailing list activity metrics. After reading > through the various threads, it's clear that everyone agrees on two things: > > 1) We'd like to get the work done in the 0.20.x branches into trunk > 2) We'd like to start releasing off of trunk again > > To that end, a few folks from Yahoo!, Cloudera, StumbleUpon, and Facebook > would like to put together a series of Hackathons to 1) burn down the 13 > (only 13!) remaining blockers for the 0.22 release and 2) forward-port the > work done in the 0.20.x branches into trunk. > > Cloudera will be hosting Hackathons from 10 am to 6 pm in both our Palo Alto > and San Francisco offices next Wednesday, 5/11, and the following Wednesday, > 5/18, to ensure both of these tasks get completed in short order. PMC > members Todd Lipcon and Tom White will lead the SF group and PMC members Eli > Collins and Patrick Hunt will lead the Palo Alto group. > > Whether you're a long-time contributor or don't have a patch to your name, > now is a great time to get involved in Apache Hadoop development. Forward > porting patches is a lot easier than writing them from scratch, and you'll > have mentors present to help guide you through the patch testing and > submission process. > > To sign up for the 5/11 Hackathon in either SF or PA, head over to > http://hadoophackathon.eventbrite.com. > > As a reminder, the SF HUG will be held on 5/11 at 6 pm in the Cloudera SF > offices: http://www.meetup.com/hadoopsf/events/17354462/. If you can't make > it on 5/11, we'll send out a link next week for the 5/18 event. > > Looking forward to getting the release train moving again! > > Regards, > Jeff > > p.s. if you'd like to participate remotely, email me directly and I'll see > about how we can teleconference you into the event.
