On 2017-05-25 03:49, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like there's a lot of confusion about who's doing what in Slider. > I'm really hoping the following comments can be addressed, since it looks > like they've been lost in the shuffle (the last is a new one from me): > > - What does it mean for Slider to be a module of Hadoop? Are there any > public discussions about how this has happened or will happen?
There was a cross-posted discussion on Slider and YARN dev lists [1] and an earlier discussion on the Slider dev list [2]. There was also an announcement in our August 2016 board report [3], as well as updates provided in our subsequent board reports. > - If you are in fact becoming a module of Hadoop, is there a time frame for > that? Slider has been in the incubator for 3 years now. It seems like > Slider is semi-active, but not frequent to release. Based on our earlier discussions, we would like Slider users to have a viable alternative before the existing Slider codebase is retired. The work is ongoing in the yarn-native-services feature branch of Hadoop to convert slider-core to a submodule of Hadoop and implement the main functions of the slider-agent in the YARN NodeManager or in slider-core. I do not have a time estimate for when we might be ready to call a vote to merge the feature branch into hadoop trunk. I can point out that a lot of subtasks of YARN-5079 have been completed, and I hope this work will not take too many more months. > - Vinod as a mentor seems a bit confusing. He's listed already as per > Taylor, so will he by being added to podlings.xml be signing off on > reports? Are there any discussions you can cite where mentors are saying > they are not available and have you asked them to step down? Vinod was not actually a mentor for Slider. He was the champion of the incubator proposal for Slider, so I think he inadvertently got listed as a mentor on some of the Slider pages, but (correctly) he was not in the podlings.xml file. When we email mentors directly asking them to sign off on a report, sometimes we get no response (as evidenced in the occasional lack of sign offs on Slider reports). No one has said they are not available. If we need to ask some of the existing mentors to step down to be able to add new mentors, we could do that. [1]: https://s.apache.org/TBfV [2]: https://s.apache.org/fCVa [3]: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2016
