Do it. I love intellij and would totally test. Fast builds ftw. On Feb 12, 2010 6:11 PM, "Paul Smith" <psm...@aconex.com> wrote:
I while ago I prepared a fairly lengthy email to this list about the potential of moving HBase to a Maven build system (as is discussed on HBASE-2099). On reflection, it was a) long, and b) a bit over the top. I think from a small smattering of discussions on IRC it appears there's at least a view that it might be worth kicking off a discussion, so the content of the original mail isn't needed. So, lets talk! :) I personally think Maven will assist as the HBase community to refactor the Hbase system into various components and should make your lives a lot easier. The built-in reporting and packaging elements make things easy if you follow conventions (I'm just proposing a few directory shuffles to follow these conventions to simplify things). I'm also recommending a slight change in direction with respect to the produced tar balls that are spit out. What do people think? The IntelliJ built in support for Maven is outstanding, and the M2Eclipse plugin is excellent for Eclipse, so there's good support for it in the IDE. Kay Kay looks to have good Maven skills up his sleeve by the looks of his work on HBASE-2212 moving out the Lucene code to a github project (nice work!), so there should be good support around. Maven will help simplify the publishing of artifacts to the Maven repositories (particularly regular snapshots for anyone upstream that want's easy access to the latest without having to build from source). HBASE-2099 has a lengthy comment trail on it, so may not be easily digestible. If you have any questions or concerns I'd really like to hear your thoughts. If you're unfamiliar with Maven I highly recommend the Maven: The Definitive Guide (free, see [1]) cheers, Paul [1] Maven: The Definitive Guide - http://www.sonatype.com/book/ (now split into 2 books, a by-example, and a reference guide).
