Re: Apache WHIRR / GSoC

[Andrei Savu <sa...@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Andrei Savu <as...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Aayush,
>
> Nice to meet you! I've CC-ed your message to the user list.
>
> I am an aspiring GSoC 2012 student and came across WHIRR on ASF's Ideas
>> page. What I would like to know is, does the WHIRR project as a whole take
>> one student or does each WHIRR issue ( such as WHIRR 2XX, 3XX, 4XX, 5XX)
>> take one student?
>>
>
> This is the list of proposed Apache Whirr projects for GSoC 2012
> http://s.apache.org/apache-whirr-gsoc-2012  - one for each student.
> Unfortunately we are lacking mentors now but I'm working on that.
>
> Also we are open to suggestions. What do you have in mind? Would you like
> to work on an existing issue? Which one?
>
>
>> Apart from that, I'm relatively new to WHIRR but I'm willing to
>> participate as Java is my language of preference. So could you provide a
>> slight help in getting started with understanding the code and debugging
>> it?
>>
>
> Start from the website [1] with "Whirr in 5 minutes" [2] and the  "Quick
> start guide" [3].
>
> It should be easy to start a cluster on Rackspace or Amazon EC2 to get a
> feeling of how things work.
>
> As you move forward I suggest that you should go through the following
> presentations:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/Presentations
>
> setup a development environment:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/How+To+Contribute
>
> check JIRA to understand the work we are doing towards 0.7.1 & 0.8.0 (see
> roadmap)
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR
>
> and maybe even try to provide a patch for some easy ones like:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-546
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-503
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-448
>
>
> [1] https://whirr.apache.org/
> [2] https://whirr.apache.org/docs/0.7.1/whirr-in-5-minutes.html
> [3] https://whirr.apache.org/docs/0.7.1/quick-start-guide.html
>
>
>> Regards
>> Aayush Kothari
>>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrei Savu
>

Re: Apache WHIRR / GSoC

[Andrei Savu <sa...@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Aayush Kothari
<aa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Andrei
>
> Well, thanks a lot for the help. Here's a summary of what I did since I
> got you mail :
>
> 1) Read extensively about the WHIRR project.
>
> 2) Went through the FAQ, set up my AWS account and got the ACCESS KEY ID
> and SECRET ACCESS KEY's required.
>
> 3) Setup a SSH client (openSSH server) , a password-less SSH key and Java6
> JDK.
>
> 4) Setup up  WHIRR 0.7.1 on my machine.
>
> 5) Read a the APACHE WHIRR presentation by Tom White to get a better
> understanding of it.
>

Great!


>
> The nasty part began when I tried running clusters. Trying to launch the
> example 3 node ZooKeeper cluster ( as given in WHIRR In 5 Minutes) and the
> hadoop cluster (as given in Overview) return the following error (i'm using
> Ubuntu 11.10) :
>

Check you keys. Are you able to start a bunch of machines using the web
console?

>
> As for now, I'm interested in taking up either WHIRR-529 (reported by you)
> or WHIRR-544 (reported by Tom White) issues as my GSoC project. I'll let
> you know in case I have an idea of my own. :)
>

Rodrigo is also interested in WHIRR-529 and he already contributed two
other patches.

I think WHIRR-544 is really interesting because as we work on speeding up
things we can also look into making the process more reliable.


>
> Regards
> Aayush
>
>
>
>