I would suggest looking over the patch history of HCat committers. I think most of them have already contributed a number of patches to the metastore. All are certainly aware of how to run Hive unit tests and have an understanding of how Hive works. So I don't think it's fair to say they would be unsafe with access to the metastore. And the Hive PMC is there to assure this does not happen. If there are issues I am sure they can deal with them.
Alan. On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Namit Jain wrote: > 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. >>> >> >
