Many thanks to Cloudera for hosting today's hackathons! Under the helpful guidance of Eli Collins, I submitted my first patch. It's great to get off the sidelines and into the game.
+1 for more of these community building events. Thanks again, -James Warren On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, > > We've got 23 folks signed up for the Hackathon this Wednesday from > organizations like Cloudera, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Trend Micro, > StumbleUpon, and Ngmoco. We'll also have the VP of the HBase PMC, Michael > Stack, and the VP of the Hive PMC, John Sichi. If you've been waiting to > get > involved in Apache Hadoop, development, now is the time! > > We've got room for 10 - 15 more. If you're in San Francisco or Palo Alto > and > want to help out with Apache Hadoop development, sign up at > http://hadoophackathon.eventbrite.com. > > Regards, > Jeff > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher <[email protected] > >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. > > > > > > >
