Alan, that would not be a good idea. Metastore code is part of hive code, and it would be safer if only Hive committers had commit access to that.
On 11/6/12 11:25 PM, "Alan Gates" <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > >On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Namit Jain wrote: > >> I like the idea of Hcatalog becoming a Hive sub-project. The >> enhancements/bugs in the serde/metastore areas can indirectly >> benefit the hive community, and it will be easier for the fix to be in >>one >> place. Having said that, I don't see serde/metastore >> moving out of hive into a separate component. Things are tied too >>closely >> together. I am assuming that no new committers would >> be automatically added to Hive as part of this, and both Hive and >>HCatalog >> will continue to have its own committers. > >One thing in this we'd like to discuss is the HCatalog committers having >commit access to the metastore sections of Hive code. That doesn't mean >it has to move into HCatalog's code base. But more and more the fixes >and changes we're doing in HCatalog are really in Hive's metastore. So >we believe it would make sense to give HCat committers access to that >component as well as HCat. > >Alan. > >> >> Thanks, >> -namit >> >> >> On 11/3/12 2:22 AM, "Alan Gates" <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Hive community. It is time for HCatalog to graduate from the >>> Apache Incubator. Given the heavy dependence of HCatalog on Hive the >>> HCatalog community agreed it made sense to explore graduating from the >>> Incubator to become a subproject of Hive (see >>> >>>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/201209. >>>mb >>> ox/%3C08C40723-8D4D-48EB-942B-8EE4327DD84A%40hortonworks.com%3E and >>> >>>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/201210. >>>mb >>> >>>ox/%3CCABN7xTCRM5wXGgJKEko0PmqDXhuAYpK%2BD-H57T29zcSGhkwGQw%40mail.gmail >>>.c >>> om%3E ). To help both communities understand what HCatalog is and >>>hopes >>> to become we also developed a roadmap that summarizes HCatalog's >>>current >>> features, planned features, and other possible features under >>>discussion: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HCATALOG/HCatalog+Roadmap >>> >>> So we are now approaching you to see if there is agreement in the Hive >>> community that HCatalog graduating into Hive would make sense. >>> >>> Alan. >> >
