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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:39:59 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cascading Accumulo
From: Christopher <ctubbsii@apache.org>
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I agree with both points.

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Sean Busbey <busbey+lists@cloudera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Arshak Navruzyan <arshakn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sean,
>>
>> I was just using the Cascading code as an example.  Not suggesting we
>> hijack Anagha's project :)
>>
>> I think there is a benefit to having a "standard" set of contribs that have
>> been reviewed / tested.  Something similar to this:
>> http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/
>>
>> I'm concerned that letting new users go hunting for contribs on their own
>> gives (which may or may not work, may or may not be documented) gives the
>> Accumulo project a little bit of an incomplete feeling.  Obviously it's not
>> possible to take on the responsibility to moderate every possible
>> contribution but some basic/obvious ones would be helpful.
>>
>> Arshak
>>
>>
>>
> I definitely agree on the importance of a curated set of related outside
> projects. I'd much rather we not have links that answer the question "How
> do I search github for Accumulo projects?" since that doesn't really answer
> the question of "What are Accumulo related projects I should care about?"
>
> Maybe we shouldn't continue to separate "contrib projects" in Accumulo and
> "ecosystem projects" that are hosted and run elsewhere to the extent we
> currently do. If I'm looking for examples of things that leverage Accumulo
> I probably don't want to look at two different places on our website. Maybe
> we could list the Accumulo hosted contribs and the external projects on an
> ecosystem page? "Powered by Accumulo" maybe?