quote: "Obviously in the second there is a vested interested by such
individual or company to promote the product therefore things like
documentation tend to be much crispier then its ASF counterparts." --
I'm not so sure about that; in cases where companies provide commercial
wraps of products but pool their resources with other companies in
maintaining the open-souce product they're wrapping, their financial
incentive would be in keeping their commercial wrap documentation
top-notch to lure people to their wraps but less so the Apache website
documentation.
I think the original poster just needs to help out with the
documentation, check it out from SVN and submit patches to improve it
(or at least submit a JIRA as Mohammad mentioned). I cleaned up much of
the Hadoop Wiki as I was learning from it.
Glen
On 01/08/2013 07:13 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky wrote:
Just a little clarification
This is NOT "how open source works" by any means as there are many
Open Source projects with well written and maintained documentation.
It all comes down to the 2 Open Source models
1. ASF Open Source - which is a pure democracy or may be even anarchy
without any governing (individual or corporate) other then the ASF
procedures/guidelines themselves
2. Stewardship-based Open Source - controlled and managed by an
individual or company
Obviously in the second there is a vested interested by such
individual or company to promote the product therefore things like
documentation tend to be much crispier then its ASF counterparts.
However the Stewardship-based Open Source model is much tighter with
regard to control of what goes in, quality of code etc., then its ASF
counterpart which allows a greater flow to free ideas from the
community, so both are valid both are open source and both needs to
exist and we developers just need to deal with it. After all its Open
Source and the code is always a good source of documentation
Cheers
Oleg
On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:59 AM, Mohammad Tariq <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello there,
Thank you for the comments. But, just to let you know,
it's a community work and no one in particular can be held
responsible for these kind of small things. This is how open
source works. Guys who are working on Hadoop have a lot
of things to do. In spite of that, they are giving their best. In
the process sometimes these kinda things might happen.
I really appreciate your effort. But rather than this you can
raise a JIRA if you find something wrong somewhere and
fix it or let somebody else fix it.
Many thanks.
P.S. : Don't take it otherwise.
Best Regards,
Tariq
+91-9741563634
https://mtariq.jux.com/
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM, javaLee <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For example,look at the documents about HDFS shell guide:
In 0.17, the prefix of HDFS shell is hadoop dfs:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.17.2/hdfs_shell.html
In 0.19, the prefix of HDFS shell is hadoop fs:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.19.1/hdfs_shell.html#lsr
In 1.0.4,the prefix of HDFS shell is hdfs dfs:
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/file_system_shell.html#ls
Reading official Hadoop ducuments is such a suffering.
As a end user, I am confused...
--
Glen Mazza
Talend Community Coders - coders.talend.com
blog: www.jroller.com/gmazza
