Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-03-01 Thread Eric Sammer
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:18 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) > wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > >>> > >>> I don't know, none of those things really sound like justification for > >>> a separate TLP, keeping something like this nearby to Hadoop MapReduce

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-28 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hey Bertrand, > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) > wrote: >> > > My point was that the technical reasons listed in this thread don't > seem to warrant forking MRUnit into its own project, Meh, arguably they do. One of the big issues is release cycles. It takes a ton

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-28 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hi Ant, On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:18 AM, ant elder wrote: > > You're right about the entry criteria, there's a very low bar to > becoming an Incubator poddling so if you all really want to I'm pretty > sure you'll be able to make it happen. But this is a proposal > discussion thread which asks for fe

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Chris, On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > The Hadoop community has been VOTE'ing over the past month to abandon > development of portions of their code base... > ...A few of us members (myself, Patrick and Nige) were willing to step up and > volunteer that in

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-28 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Hi Guys, > >>> >>> I don't know, none of those things really sound like justification for >>> a separate TLP, keeping something like this nearby to Hadoop MapReduce >>> seems like it would help give it a better chance of long term

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-28 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hi Guys, >> >> I don't know, none of those things really sound like justification for >> a separate TLP, keeping something like this nearby to Hadoop MapReduce >> seems like it would help give it a better chance of long term survival >> to me. Wouldn't simply moving mrunit out from >> hadoop/map

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Eric Sammer wrote: > >> == Rationale == >> MRUnit has existed as a contrib component of Apache Hadoop. This has served >> to introduce users to the library and to provide necessary functionality to >> developers

Re: [PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-27 Thread ant elder
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Eric Sammer wrote: > == Rationale == > MRUnit has existed as a contrib component of Apache Hadoop. This has served > to introduce users to the library and to provide necessary functionality to > developers in the form of development support. That said, MRUnit is

[PROPOSAL] MRUnit entry into the Apache Incubator

2011-02-27 Thread Eric Sammer
All: I'd like to propose MRUnit - a library to aid in the development of unit tests of Apache Hadoop map reduce jobs - be accepted into the Apache Incubator. The proposal is up on the Incubator wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MRUnitProposal as well as pasted below. Thanks in advance for