To be submitted to incubator@ July 13th, 2011
Apache Sqoop
A tool for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases.
Sqoop entered incubation on June 11, 2011.
Community
- Mailing lists have been created.
- New committer accounts have been setup except for Guy le Mar whose account request has been submitted.
- SVN directory structure has been created, karma granted for initial committers.
- JIRA has been initialized for SQOOP.
- Confluence Wiki space has been created.
- Work on migrating JIRA information from Cloudera hosted JIRA instance to Apache JIRA is underway.
Issues before graduation
- Create Sqoop web site
- Make an incubating release
- Grow the community size and diversity.
Licensing and other issues
- Work to obtain CCLA from Cloudera regarding license grant for existing Sqoop code from Cloudera GitHub repository is underway.