+1 On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ashutosh Chauhan <hashut...@apache.org>wrote:
> Hi all, > > Harish and Prajkta are doing some cool work over at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-896 IMO its a very useful > feature for the community and our user base. Harish and Prajkta are making > steady progress on this for much last year in their github repo > https://github.com/hbutani/hive and much of the feature is now functional. > However, its quite a bit of work and new code which will take some time > before being ready for trunk. I propose that we create a new branch so that > further development of this happens in apache repo instead of github repo. > This gets us few benefits: > a) It will avoid the situation we ended up with HiveServer2 where a useful > new functionality came but in one big patch which made its review and thus > inclusion in mainline harder than it should have been. > b) Obvious advantages of development getting done in apache as oppose to > github which are: > i) It will make it easier for apache hive community members interested > in this work (like me) to follow progress. > ii) It will make it easier for apache hive community members interested > in this work to contribute. > iii) It will make it easier for apache community members to review the > work and provide feedback. > > I further propose that we follow Commit-than-review policy for this feature > branch which will enable contributors to make rapid progress without > waiting for lengthy review cycles. Hive committers interested in work can > either review branch any time they want to provide feedback or can wait > till contributors declare work is complete and make a proposal to merge in > trunk and than review it than. This anyway is a throwaway branch not > intended to make releases out of it. > > Unless I hear any objections, I will create a branch over the weekend. > > Thanks, > Ashutosh >
