Maxime, Thanks for taking the initiative of summarizing the meetup and get things going.
Attached are the PDFs for the 3 presentations we had (thanks to Michelle and Mona for sharing the slides), hope the information is useful. Thx. Alejandro On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Max, > Thanks for your email with a quick summary of oozie meetup. > > > These are the action items and initial actors based on your list: > 1(a) Eliminate redundancies in XML definitions. Britt/Mohammad > 1(b) XML modeling tool. (Ryota/Ashish/Mohammad) > > 2. Visualize the Workflow current status.(Virag/Mohammad) > 3. Deployment tools ( Max) > 4. More to add... > > Please follow-up on these action items in couple of week. > Regards, > Mohammad > ________________________________ > From: Maxime Petazzoni <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:13 PM > Subject: Post meetup discussion > > Hi all, > > Last week a bunch of us attended the Oozie Meetup prior to the Hadoop > Summit at the San Jose Convention Center. It was really nice to be able > to interact face-to-face with other Oozie contributors and users. > > At the end of the meetup we went over a few items that gathered > consensus. I'd like to get the discussion going again on these so we can > get to more precise requirements and use cases, and maybe inspire a few > of us to get crackin'. > > I'll start first, to get the ball rolling. > > - one thing that was mentioned a lot is the ability to visually create > workflows and coordinators instead of having to write XML. Although > I personally don't rank this to be very high priority -- my use > case is less around ad-hoc workflows -- I do see a huge value in > this, if only to help spread Oozie. > > - directly related to visualization, monitoring of the running > workflows is definitely at the top of my list. Being able to > visualize the DAG of a workflow, with the completed actions in > green, in progress action in yellow, failed action(s) in red would > be a huge help for real-time monitoring and debugging. > > I've also written a command-line Python utility that helps managing a > set of coordinators that need to run in various Hadoop clusters, > exposing them as "applications" to the release manager. I'm not sure if > this has any value for Oozie, but if anybody's interested I might be > able to share the code for that. > > /Maxime >
