+1 On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Jungblut <[email protected]> wrote: > This here could be a good beginner issue: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAMA-445 > > We have to add a better description. But actually this is a simple task > just adding a configuration value in the BSPJob and reading it in the Peer. > > What do you think? > > 2011/11/4 Edward J. Yoon <[email protected]> > >> Good Idea. >> >> But, I think we have to fix HAMA-455 and cdh issues before prepare >> guide. As I mentioned before, many people reports/asks them to me. >> >> 2011/11/4 ChiaHung Lin <[email protected]>: >> > For the 1st issue, probably we should provide a step by step guide with >> a simple example such as hello world. There we provides concrete setting >> how the system is configured, including hdfs, bsp daemons, etc., and >> execution steps because some users perhaps even have no clues what cluster >> is. Concrete pictures, configuration setting, and a working example may >> better illustrate what hama is and how it might work. >> > >> > For the second issue, a todo list linking to jira or threads may be a >> bit cleaner for new comer to check if something they have interest. The >> disadvantage is the list may need updated periodically. >> > >> > I would like to take on the first task if we think that's ok. But what >> example we should take as some examples e.g. serialized printing are going >> to be moved to test package? >> > >> > -----Original message----- >> > From:Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]> >> > To:[email protected] >> > Date:Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:52:02 +0100 >> > Subject:Lowering the barrier >> > >> > Hi all, >> > I've been thinking about how to improve our community experience and >> > attract new users and contributors for some time and I am quite sure we >> > should, at least, try to do the following : >> > >> > 1. make our getting started guides much much more easy for someone who >> > doesn't have any clue about what, for instance, Hadoop is and how to >> > configure it; defining a more tiny and clear list of small steps in >> order >> > to start Hama, the web interface, etc. I don't know if that's a common >> > opinion but it seems to me the 'quick start' page contains all the >> needed >> > stuff to know to start Hama but for a new user it may be not so easy to >> > manage all that information. >> > 2. allow more users to contribute creating small and self contained >> > issues. This was the way I started here at ASF: I didn't have a deep >> > understanding of each of the components of the first project I was >> involved >> > with (Apache UIMA) but I found some small and trivial issues (a couple >> of >> > lines of code to document / fix / create) I could start from and that >> > allowed me to get more familiar with the code and the insights of the >> > project AND at the same time this allowed the project committers to >> care >> > more about bigger and more complex issues. The big design decisions and >> > improvements will be still handled by committers most of the times but >> > simpler things can be improved and taken from newcomers. >> > >> > One other thing could be improve how we present to the "public" with our >> > website but it may be tricky, however there I suggest adding some >> > screenshots/pictures for the architecture / BSP model. >> > One last thing regards a technical point: it may be good if we could >> define >> > a Maven profile to automatically start a Hama cluster from Maven but we >> > should decide if / how to do that; this would allow the user to do a SVN >> > checkout, run the Maven goal and understanding by seeing Hama working. >> > Just as an example for the web interface to be started from Maven, we >> could >> > use the Maven Jetty plugin [1]. >> > I hope this helps but I look forward to ear other people opinions and >> > points. >> > Have a nice day. >> > Tommaso >> > >> > [1] : http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Maven+Jetty+Plugin >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ChiaHung Lin >> > Department of Information Management >> > National University of Kaohsiung >> > Taiwan >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon >> @eddieyoon >> > > > > -- > Thomas Jungblut > Berlin <[email protected]> >
-- Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @eddieyoon
