+1 to spinning it out and +1 for just starting to work with incubator as chris outlines.
Once that is up and the code here can be removed as redundant. Folks might object to that, but I highly doubt it given this thread. On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:46 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > +1 this seems like a great idea! > > Here's a guide to creating an Apache Incubator proposal: > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html > > You'll need 3 ASF members to be your mentors, 1 of which whom > is willing to be your Champion (the person that takes leadership > of shepherding you guys through the Incubator). > > I'm happy to help out in this effort however I can. I had a great experience > mentoring the MRUnit folks and they have done a great job! > > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
