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From: Russ Weeks <rweeks@newbrightidea.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 01:52:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: Notes from a local co-working day
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Sounds very productive! Sucks to be 3 timezones away from the action :(

Will any other Accumulo devs be attending ApacheCon this year? I'm certain
that I could organize some space fairly nearby for a similar event.

-Russ

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:07 PM Josh Elser <josh.elser@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A group of us in central MD met today at a local business (which was
> gracious enough to donate a conference room today) and enjoy each
> others' presence while hacking on some code.
>
> In the spirit of no private discussions, I made sure to keep a record of
> the relevant Accumulo talking points we had. We had myself, Billie,
> Keith, Mike Walch, Mike Wall, Christopher, and Ed "Avocado" Coleman (he
> asked for that one) in attendance.
>
> # Where does 1.8 stand?
>
> I made a quick pass over the 1.8 JIRA issues trying to write down what
> we've already done and what is outstanding. The highlights mentioned:
>
> * Tablet locator public API
> * Atomic add/remove authorizations API for Accumulo users
> * Automated Accumulo Iterator test harness
> * Upgrade to Thrift 0.9.3
> * Ports for services are moved out of the Linux ephemeral port range
> (the monitor 50095 -> 9995)
> * Internal WAL state-tracking changes (Eric's uber change about how we
> record WALs in the metadata table).
> * Introduction of a daemon script for Accumulo services and pidfile
> support (!)
> * Scanner context-classpath feature from Dave (not sure details)
> * Per-table Sampling from Keith (needs a test according to him)
>
> There were a couple of things mentioned that people want to try to also
> get into a 1.8, identified by "owner"
>
> * Christopher: no-chop merges
> * Keith: A public API for reading/writing RFiles
> * Josh: Finish monitor improvements (not sure about this one, it really
> fell off my radar)
> * Mike Wall: Split out examples from "core" repository.
>
> # RFile read/write public API
>
> Just before I stepped out, Keith was giving a brief explanation of a new
> API that he's been working on to read and write RFiles directly.
>
> https://github.com/keith-turner/accumulo/tree/rfile-api
>
> He mentioned that we should expect some JIRA issue/pull-request from him
> soon.
>
> # Incubator discussion
>
> We also had a general discussion about how the incubator process at the
> ASF works. Billie had some great information to pass along, and I tried
> to chime in now and again with things I've learned :)
>
> - Josh
>

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