A Flume hackathon is happening 2011/12/16 at Cloudera's Palo Alto office!
Registration: http://www.meetup.com/Flume-User-Meetup/events/43451842/
Potential Projects
The following are some potential fun projects to hack on for Flume NG. They should be divided up by category and tagged with some estimate of complexity. Feel free to add more!
Sinks and Sources |
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Description |
Complexity |
JIRA |
Write (or port from OG) an HBase sink |
HIGH |
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Write a thrift source similar to Flume NG's AvroSource |
HIGH |
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Write (or port from OG) a Scribe compatibility source to allow Scribe or Scribe libraries to talk to NG. |
HIGH |
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Write (or port from OG) a syslog source. |
MID |
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Write a sink to send data to LogStash - http://logstash.net/ |
MID |
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Write a JMS source and / or sink |
MID |
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Write an ElasticSearch sink |
? |
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Write a Solr sink |
? |
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Documentation |
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Description |
Complexity |
JIRA |
Create and explain common Flume NG deployment scenarios |
LOW |
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Improve the NG getting started guide |
LOW |
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Create example configurations for common deployments |
LOW |
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Update the How to Contribute guide |
LOW |
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Build and Testing |
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Description |
Complexity |
JIRA |
Expand any of the existing unit tests |
LOW - HIGH |
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Write additional unit tests for things not yet covered |
LOW - HIGH |
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Add cobertura support to the build |
MID |
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Add jcarder support to the build |
MID |
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Make the build generate javadoc |
LOW |
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It's also more than fine to just join us for the day to learn more about Flume NG, how to become a committer, talk about potential features and design, or build Flume integration into your project!
Results
This will get filled in after the hackathon.