On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 17:46, Eric Baldeschwieler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Could you put me in contact with the folks from yahoo you are talking to?
Aren't you at Y! anymore, Eric? Wow! > 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. > >
