Thanks much for the suggestions - we'll go ahead and release this through
one of the project hosting services and provide a link when it's up.

Thanks again.

Jonathan

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Unlike Hadoop, thrift doesn't have much of a concept of a contrib/ dir. If
> you make changes to Thrift itself (ie the code generator or the language
> binding libraries) then you would open a JIRA and post a patch.
>
> It sounds like your project is standalone and just happens to depend on
> Thrift. In that case I think you'd be best off trying to open source it
> separately, probably using a service like Google Code or GitHub (my
> personal
> preference)
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Todd
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jonathan Seidman <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > We've developed a Thrift service that provides a common client interface
> to
> > distributed file systems, similar to the HDFS-APIs project which is part
> of
> > the Hadoop contrib package, but designed to support a broader array of
> > DFS's. Currently we support Hadoop and Sector, and given time and
> resources
> > would like to implement support for KFS.
> >
> > We plan to open source this project, and would like to explore
> contributing
> > it to Thrift. We've searched the wiki and mailing lists for info on the
> > process to contribute a project to Thrift, but haven't been able to find
> > anything. If this is something that folks feel would have value as a
> > contributed project, can somebody provide us with details on the process
> we
> > need to follow?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Seidman
> > Open Data Group
> >
>



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