[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-2046) Documentation: Hadoop Install/Configuration Guide and Map-Reduce User Manual

["Arun C Murthy (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Arun C Murthy updated HADOOP-2046:
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    Attachment: HADOOP-2046_1_20071018.patch

Here is a quick heads-up with updated javadocs for Configuration (from HADOOP-1881), JobConf, JobClient, RunningJob and ClusterStatus...

> Documentation: Hadoop Install/Configuration Guide and Map-Reduce User Manual
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-2046
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2046
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: documentation
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.2
>            Reporter: Arun C Murthy
>            Assignee: Arun C Murthy
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.15.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-2046_1_20071018.patch
>
>
> I'd like to put forward some thoughts on how to structure reasonably detailed documentation for hadoop.
> Essentially I think of atleast 3 different profiles to target:
> * hadoop-dev, folks who are actively involved improving/fixing hadoop.
> * hadoop-user
> ** mapred application writers and/or folks who directly use hdfs
> ** hadoop cluster administrators
> For this issue, I'd like to first target the latter category (admin and hdfs/mapred user) - where, arguably, is the biggest bang for the buck, right now. 
> There is a crying need to get user-level stuff documented, judging by the sheer no. of emails we get on the hadoop lists...
> ----
> *1. Installing/Configuration Guides*
> This set of documents caters to folks ranging from someone just playing with hadoop on a single-node to operations teams who administer hadoop on several nodes (thousands). To ensure we cover all bases I'm thinking along the lines of:
> * _Download, install and configure hadoop_ on a single-node cluster: including a few comments on how to run examples (word-count) etc.
> * *Admin Guide*: Install and configure a real, distributed cluster. 
> * *Tune Hadoop*: Separate sections on how to tune hdfs and map-reduce, targeting power admins/users.
> I reckon most of this would be done via forrest, with appropriate links to javadoc.
> ---
> *2. User Manual*
> This set is geared for people who use hdfs and/or map-reduce per-se. Stuff to document:
> * Write a really simple mapred application, just fitting the blocks together i.e. maybe a walk-through of a couple of examples like word-count, sort etc.
> * Detailed information on important map-reduce user-interfaces:
> *- JobConf
> *- JobClient
> *- Tool & ToolRunner
> *- InputFormat 
> *-- InputSplit
> *-- RecordReader
> *- Mapper
> *- Reducer
> *- Reporter
> *- OutputCollector
> *- Writable
> *- WritableComparable
> *- OutputFormat
> *- DistributedCache
> * SequenceFile
> *- Compression types: NONE, RECORD, BLOCK
> * Hadoop Streaming
> * Hadoop Pipes
> I reckon most of this would land up in the javadocs, specifically package.html and some via forrest.
> ----
> Also, as discussed in HADOOP-1881, it would be quite useful to maintain documentation per-release, even on the hadoop website i.e. we could have a main documentation page link to documentation per-release and to the trunk.
> ----
> Thoughts?

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