[Blueprint servercloud-q-bigdata-hadoop] Next steps for Hadoop on Ubuntu

[Roman V Shaposhnik]

Blueprint changed by Roman V Shaposhnik:

Whiteboard changed:
  UDS Discussion Topics:
  
  Quick 101 on current packaging and general approach.
   - Based on binary distributions from upstream
   - Re-use of Bigtop packaging where appropriate
   - Rebuild of native components (to support 12.04 and ARM).
  Alignment to next release of Apache Bigtop and potential collaboration (Ubuntu 12.04 will be the targetted release for Bigtop 0.4.0).
-  - Stick with Hadoop 1.x or move to 0.23 branch (or both).
+  - Stick with Hadoop 1.x or move to 2.x (former 0.23) branch (or both).
   - Process and technology for feeding back patches to Bigtop (not easy ATM).
-  - Work to support Ubuntu 12.04 as target version for Bigtop.
+  - Work to support Ubuntu 12.04 as target version for Bigtop.
  Updates to stable packages for Ubuntu 12.04
   - Release/Testing process
  OpenJDK7 as default Java in 12.10 - support from upstreams and testing process
  Revisit packaging from source.
+ Testing of packages and functionality
  
  User Stories:
  
  TBC
  
  Assumptions:
  
  TBC
  
  Test Plans:
  
  TBC
  
  Release Note:
  
  TBC

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Next steps for Hadoop on Ubuntu
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-bigdata-hadoop