Hi Aaron, Where will you track bugs/features/improvements on sqoop?
Thanks, raghu On 3/29/10 12:02 PM, "Aaron Kimball" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hadoop, Hive, and Sqoop users, > > For the past year, the Apache Hadoop MapReduce project has played host to > Sqoop, a command-line tool that performs parallel imports and exports between > relational databases and HDFS. We've developed a lot of features and gotten a > lot of great feedback from users. While Sqoop was a contrib project in Hadoop, > it has been steadily improved and grown. > > But the contrib directory is a home for new or small projects incubating > underneath Hadoop's umbrella. Sqoop is starting to look less like a small > project these days. In particular, a feature that has been growing in > importance for Sqoop is its ability to integrate with Hive. In order to > facilitate this integration from a compilation and testing standpoint, we've > pulled Sqoop out of contrib and into its own repository hosted on github. > > You can download all the relevant bits here: > http://www.github.com/cloudera/sqoop > > The code there will run in conjunction with the Apache Hadoop trunk source. > (Compatibility with other distributions/versions is forthcoming.) > > While we've changed hosts, Sqoop will keep the same license -- future > improvements will continue to remain Apache 2.0-licensed. We welcome the > contributions of all in the open source community; there's a lot of exciting > work still to be done! If you'd like to help out but aren't sure where to > start, send me an email and I can recommend a few areas where improvements > would be appreciated. > > Want some more information about Sqoop? An introduction is available here: > http://www.cloudera.com/sqoop > A ready-to-run release of Sqoop is included with Cloudera's Distribution for > Hadoop: http://archive.cloudera.com > And its reference manual is available for browsing at > http://archive.cloudera.com/docs/sqoop > > If you have any questions about this move process, please ask me. > > Regards, > - Aaron Kimball > Cloudera, Inc. >
