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.
  • Slides from this talk are available here: http://www.slideshare.net/cwsteinbach/cloudera-huebeeswax
  • Hue was recently released as open source. The code is available on Github here: http://github.com/cloudera/hue
• 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  • A somewhat outdated Owl design document is available here: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/owl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.