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Subject: Re: Spinning out Hadoop Eclipse Tools
From: Arun C Murthy <acm@hortonworks.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:36:52 -0700
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I think this is a great idea! +1!

It would be great to find a home and community willing to take this =
forward... I'm assuming others would like to see the same.

We could start  a vote to formalize this if necessary.

thanks,
Arun

On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Adam Berry wrote:

> Hello all,
>=20
> I'm proposing spinning out the eclipse plugin from the main hadoop =
source into a separate incubating project. I'm willing to commit to this =
effort.
>=20
> With a separate project, that isn't tied (source wise) to the Hadoop =
source we could make dev tools that could support multiple versions of =
Hadoop from within a single IDE, which would be very helpful when =
migrating jobs or dealing with clusters running different versions.
>=20
> The current tools seem to support the 0.20 line, and help with =
developing MR jobs, and also have some HDFS tools included. So the early =
work would be to ensure that these features were supported across the =
version space of Hadoop.
>=20
> Down the line we could also add support for additional tools such as =
MRUnit and other products in the Hadoop ecosystem, to eventually yield a =
one stop project for all dev tools around this space.
>=20
> If there is agreement on this, how do we go about getting it done?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> Adam Berry