I guess there's another piece in the Bigtop, that most of the linux distro's are lacking - it is only available in LSB at some extend: namely iTest based validation system that plays TCK role for the ecosystem at large.
Cos On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 01:51PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I guess big top is a non standard project in that , although it builds > > artifacts, those artifacts can already be built from other places. > > The key word here is -- they can only be built. They are not available > by default. Here's what I'm trying to say -- if today you download > the default binary convenience artifact of Hadoop 1.x, HBase 0.94.x > and Pig 0.11 you won't be able to even start the combination up. > You have to rebuild the corresponding projects in order to make > them work with each other. > > > However, in addition to building artifacts, it actually tests those > > artifacts between > > one another - and the fact that it does this is actually one of the "major" > > artifacts - because that process does the integration testsing for the > > matrix of hadoop ecosystem tools. > > I'll stick with my Linux distro analogy. We're a Bigdata management > distro. Our kernel is Hadoop and our userland is all the other projects. > We produce the packages for end users to consume and we also > maintain code that facilitates production of those packages (build, > deploy, test). > > > Anyways... just thinkinng out loud while getting a feel for this awesome > > peice of work. Very useful and wish i knew of it earlier. after a few > > years of hadooping around and banging my head against integration ecosystems > > various components. > > Hope this helps others that are new to the big top project.!! > > We're definitely lacking good documentation if you think you can help -- that > will be VERY much apprecaited! > > Thanks, > Roman.
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