(Channeling Allen Wittenauer...:-) *Grabbing Popcorn...*
- milind -- Milind Bhandarkar [email protected] On 5/6/11 5:46 PM, "Eric Baldeschwieler" <[email protected]> wrote: >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. >
