1) Whether we're becoming a subproject or not, this idea is a kind of cool. We can just ship out as a utility in Hadoop to harvest more users. More Pig users = more Hadoop users anyway so it doesn't seem to conflict with anything.
2) Let's do like the way they promoted Ruby on Rails. Wow!! you can make a website in 5 minutes!! Pi On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently, there are really 1-2 people that pop out in design discussions. >> I >> would agree on anything that will make us more like a real community! >> >> However, the main idea will never change. The more usable application = >> more >> users = more developers. >> > > The chicken and the egg ...I know > > But I guess there are a couple of things pig could do. > > 1) Provide the current hadoop distributions with PIG integrated. (Should be > communicated with the hadoop project of course) > > 2) A tutorial / screencast what you can already do with it. Maybe run > through the usual examples. > > 3) Make a list of companies/projects that already use PIG in production > > 4) Get some people to blog about this once things are in place > > I know this isn't all nice and sexy development stuff. But I am sure it > will help to find a few more hands. > > My 2 cents > > cheers > -- > Torsten >
