Hi again Big Top ! What are the "goals" as far as software artifacts coming out of bigtop ? I see that in the jenkins server there are all sorts of things, everything from
- specific versions of tools which are considered part of the ecosystem (i.e. the flume rpm) http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/job/Bigtop-trunk-Flume/label=fedora17/ws/build/hive/rpm/ - specific versions of non-ecosystem tools (like SOLR, which is completely independent of Hadoop) http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-trunk-All/ The definition on the web page is "Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem." Clearly, big top is doing alot of awesome stuff - building VMs with hadoop distros in them for the whole ecosystem, testing the interoperability of the software in those VMs, and compiling / building hadoop ecosystem tools and packaging them up into a reusable and easily integrated structure. However, its not clear what the "final" artifact that big top is producing is.? Maybe I don't understand the project definition correctly. If so please clarify :) Thanks !
