Development ContributorsMeetings HiveContributorsMinutes100706

Attendees: Amr Awadallah, John Sichi, Paul Yang, Olga Natkovich, Ajay Kidave, Yongqiang He, Basab Malik, Vinithra Varadharajan, bc Wong, Arvind Prabhakar, Carl Steinbach

  • bc Wong gave a live demo of Cloudera's Hue framework and the Beeswax Hive web interface.
  • Olga Natkovich gave a whiteboard talk on HOwl.
    • HOwl = Hive !MetaStore + Owl = shared metadata system between Pig, Hive, and Map Reduce
    • HOwl will likely leverage the !MetaStore schema and ORM layer.
    • A somewhat outdated Owl design document is available here: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/owl
  • Carl gave an update on progress with the 0.6.0 release.
    • There was a discussion about the plan to move the documentation off of the wiki and into version control.
    • Several people voiced concerns that developers/users are less likely to update the documentation if doing so requires them to submit a patch.
    • The new proposal for documentation reached at the meeting is as follows:
      • The trunk version of the documentation will be maintained on the wiki.
      • As part of the release process the documentation will be copied off of the wiki and converted to xdoc, and then checked into svn.
      • HTML documentation generated from the xdoc will be posted to the Hive webpage when the new release is posted.
    • Carl is going to investigate the feasibility of writing a tool that converts documentation directly from !MoinMoin wiki markup to xdoc.
  • John agreed to host the next contributors meeting at Facebook.