Hey Som, Thanks for the great feedback; I am also an admirer of Cascading's user guide and feel that having one for Crunch would be a great addition. My reason for not writing one yet is largely selfish, i.e., I write and talk a lot as part of my day job, and working on Crunch is how I relax.
That said, the holiday season is upon us in the US, and so I have some downtime to devote to writing docs. If anyone has any good brain hacks for forcing oneself into writing, I would be grateful. :) Best, Josh On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Som Satpathy <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Josh/all, > > It's been a couple of months since my team started using Crunch for our > mapreduce. It has been a great tool, simplifying may problems and > increasing productivity. I personally found it quicker to pick up than > cascading, which I think has a steeper learning curve. My main sources of > learning crunch so far have been the javadocs, crunch user-list, crunch > source code, crunch-examples and some online articles explaining how crunch > works. One place where I found crunch lagging is the need for a user guide > or how-to documentations, something on the lines of cascading user-guides, > which I would say has been really useful for its user-base. Is such a > user-guide coming up soon? That will be of great help for the crunch user > community. > > Thanks, > Som > -- Director of Data Science Cloudera <http://www.cloudera.com> Twitter: @josh_wills <http://twitter.com/josh_wills>
