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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:22:32 -0500
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Move common, hdfs, mapreduce contrib components to
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From: Eric Sammer <esammer@cloudera.com>
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Huge +1.

Sqoop has continued development at https://github.com/cloudera/sqoop
MRUnit is at https://github.com/esammer/mrunit

I think the former can be easily removed. The latter, per my previous email,
I think could be removed as well.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Nigel Daley <ndaley@mac.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Now that http://apache-extras.org is launched (
> https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches)
> I'd like to start a discussion on moving contrib components out of common,
> mapreduce, and hdfs.
>
> These contrib components complicate the builds, cause test failures that
> nobody seems to care about, have releases that are tied to Hadoop's long
> release cycles, etc.  Most folks I've talked with agree that these contrib
> components would be better served by being pulled out of Hadoop and hosted
> elsewhere. The new apache-extras code hosting site seems like a natural
> *default* location for migrating these contrib projects.  Perhaps some
> should graduate from contrib to src (ie from contrib to core of the project
> they're included in).  If folks agree, we'll need to come up with a mapping
> of contrib component to it's final destination and file a jira.
>
> Here are the contrib components by project (hopefully I didn't miss any).
>
> Common Contrib:
>  failmon
>  hod
>  test
>
>
> MapReduce Contrib:
>  capacity-scheduler -- move to MR core?
>  data_join
>  dynamic-scheduler
>  eclipse-plugin
>  fairscheduler -- move to MR core?
>  gridmix
>  index
>  mrunit
>  mumak
>  raid
>  sqoop
>  streaming -- move to MR core?
>  vaidya
>  vertica
>
>
> HDFS Contrib:
>  fuse-dfs
>  hdfsproxy
>  thriftfs
>
>
> Cheers,
> Nige
>


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