[FLUME-774] Move HDFS sink into a separate module

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: NG alpha 1
• Fix Version/s: NG alpha 1
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Prasad Suresh Mujumdar
• Reporter: Eric Sammer
• Created: 06/Oct/11 18:52
• Updated: 17/Oct/11 19:27
• Resolved: 12/Oct/11 19:34

Description

The HDFS sink is currently in the flume-ng-core maven module. This means that Flume core depends on Hadoop. Ideally, we would move this to a separate maven module (e.g. flume-ng-hadoop) so this dependency was optional.