I have to say that I am quickly losing any interest in working on this as well.
The acronym wall and general surliness of the various posters makes contributing to debian much less inviting than it might be. I, too, am a volunteer and have little time for attitude. Much better for me to go where I can be productive. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > b) I think that there is actually very little interest for > Hadoop/HBase/ZooKeeper packages _in_ Debian. ( There is interest for > packages > _from_ Cloudera or Apache _for_ Debian, but that's something else.) Even > the > company I worked for switched to use the Cloudera distribution, because > they > felt more confident about it. Now there'll be the Bigtop project and people > will rather use the "official" apache releases which are tested by > Yahoo/Facebook/Cloudera then the Debian packages. > So without any discussion about ZooKeepers Code quality, it might just not > be > worth to do the packaging work if nobody wants to use it. >
