[DISCUSS] [VOTE] Retire HDT

["Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Hi Mirko,

Thanks for your feedback (note subject thread/change, that
was a lot to put in on a VOTE :) ).

This is great feedback, but my question is, why wait until
there is a thread to retire the project to provide it?
Anyhoo if you have available cycles, etc., and want to help
the project out, the minimum # of people around here to get
things done is usually ~3, so you¹ll need at least 2 more people
that want to keep the project alive.

Cheers,
Chris

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mirko Kämpf <mi...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "dev@hdt.incubator.apache.org" <de...@hdt.incubator.apache.org>
Date: Monday, November 10, 2014 at 1:35 AM
To: "dev@hdt.incubator.apache.org" <de...@hdt.incubator.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Retire HDT

>Hello,
>
>my VOTE:
>
>-1
>
>and regarding the vote for retiring the HDT project I would like to
>suggest
>to clearly define the scope of the project if it survives after the VOTE.
>
>I found it hard to explain to other people what the role of HDT is. Since
>the Kite-SDK offers
>dataset centric libraries and Morphlines for reusable "single record" ETL
>operations I was more
>focused on this side. But anyway, even if you know the Hadoop Ecosystem,
>it
>is not easy to
>see what are the most often used components. In between I think the
>Morphlines are great and
>some tool support for developers and analysts would be great. I created
>"MorphMiner". It is a tool, which allows
>editing and testing of Morphlines in an GUI, and this could be a
>contribution to HDT, but I think, right now,
>it is not really clear if it is a good fit, as I can not see the overall
>picture of the HDT vision.
>
>What do you think about the role of HDT? It could be the single entry
>point
>for developer with an abstract "cluster handling" component.
>
>This means, (A) we would have to enable a connection to existing cluster
>via their manager API, e.g. Cloudera Managers REST API or comparable APIs
>from other venders would be used retrieve status and to enable simple
>operations, but in the other hand, this seems to be an overhead, as such
>tools already provide all relevant information, but in a different system.
>Here it would already be fine to have a browser tab in eclipse to access
>the cluster. Even Hue could be embedded.
>
>(B) for web developers it would be fine to have a "HUE Module" available
>as
>a template to start coding, testing and deployment.
>
>We could see, that application development around Hadoop is not "the one
>task, done in one IDE", but a set of multiple activities which include
>even
>administration and data or metadata management. An IDE is often seen as
>the
>"environment to do the coding in a productive way - not deployment, and
>this can confuse Hadoop newbies.
>
>Maybe this are reasons for the low activity, because the focus is not
>clear
>and the tasks are that diverse.
>
>I think, instead of retirement of HDT we should actively create "The case
>for HDT". One way to do this could be a collection of best practices and
>tutorials which show how HDT helps or even can help - from here we can go
>on with the tool development affords and hopefully with some work which
>integrates the Kite SDK into HDT. The dataset tools is already a good
>starting point. Based on this, a dataset inspector which even produces
>dataset profiles seems to be a doable project for a student. I volunteer
>for mentoring and providing an existing skeleton of the code for this
>module.
>
>To include more ideas from Kite SDK developers and other people I know,
>who
>may be interested in this discussion I send it to some "of list addresses"
>to invite those people.
>
>Good luck HDT !!!
>
>Cheers,
>Mirko
>
>
>2014-11-10 9:45 GMT+01:00 Rahul Sharma <rs...@apache.org>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Based on the discussion happened on the mailing list [1] ,I'd like to
>>call
>> a VOTE to retire[2] Apache HDT from  Apache Incubator. It appears i that
>> the project has lost community interest with almost no activity on
>>mailing
>> lists.
>>
>> This VOTE will be open for at least 72 hours and passes on achieving a
>> consensus.
>>
>>  +1 [ ] Yes, I am in favor of retiring HDT from the Apache Incubator.
>>  +0 [ ]
>>  -1 [ ] No, I am not in favor of retiring HDT because...
>>
>> regards
>> Rahul
>>
>> [1] http://apache.markmail.org/message/ljcrnj5uluiemvaz
>> [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/retirement.html
>>