Hi Guys, Also just to note, it's not absolutely required to VOTE to fork the Eclipse Tools into a new project within the Incubator, but it's a nice gesture to show community support.
Just wanted to mention that, for completeness. Cheers, Chris On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Eli Collins wrote: > Hey Adam, > > That would be awesome. +1 > > We've discussed moving the various contrib projects out of Hadoop in > the past, and think it make sense for all the reasons you mention. A > good example of how we've done this was done previously is MRUnit, > now hosted at http://mrunit.apache.org. > > Next steps, if others agree then you can draft a proposal to vote on. > See this thread and jira for an example: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201102.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2430 > > Thanks, > Eli > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Adam Berry <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm proposing spinning out the eclipse plugin from the main hadoop source >> into a separate incubating project. I'm willing to commit to this effort. >> >> With a separate project, that isn't tied (source wise) to the Hadoop source >> we could make dev tools that could support multiple versions of Hadoop from >> within a single IDE, which would be very helpful when migrating jobs or >> dealing with clusters running different versions. >> >> The current tools seem to support the 0.20 line, and help with developing MR >> jobs, and also have some HDFS tools included. So the early work would be to >> ensure that these features were supported across the version space of Hadoop. >> >> Down the line we could also add support for additional tools such as MRUnit >> and other products in the Hadoop ecosystem, to eventually yield a one stop >> project for all dev tools around this space. >> >> If there is agreement on this, how do we go about getting it done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Adam Berry ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
