Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Blocker
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.14.2
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None
Description
I'd like to put forward some thoughts on how to structure reasonably detailed documentation for hadoop.
Essentially I think of atleast 3 different profiles to target:
- hadoop-dev, folks who are actively involved improving/fixing hadoop.
- hadoop-user
- mapred application writers and/or folks who directly use hdfs
- hadoop cluster administrators
For this issue, I'd like to first target the latter category (admin and hdfs/mapred user) - where, arguably, is the biggest bang for the buck, right now.
There is a crying need to get user-level stuff documented, judging by the sheer no. of emails we get on the hadoop lists...
1. Installing/Configuration Guides
This set of documents caters to folks ranging from someone just playing with hadoop on a single-node to operations teams who administer hadoop on several nodes (thousands). To ensure we cover all bases I'm thinking along the lines of:
- Download, install and configure hadoop on a single-node cluster: including a few comments on how to run examples (word-count) etc.
- Admin Guide: Install and configure a real, distributed cluster.
- Tune Hadoop: Separate sections on how to tune hdfs and map-reduce, targeting power admins/users.
I reckon most of this would be done via forrest, with appropriate links to javadoc.
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2. User Manual
This set is geared for people who use hdfs and/or map-reduce per-se. Stuff to document:
- Write a really simple mapred application, just fitting the blocks together i.e. maybe a walk-through of a couple of examples like word-count, sort etc.
- Detailed information on important map-reduce user-interfaces:
- JobConf
- JobClient
- Tool & ToolRunner
- InputFormat
- InputSplit
- RecordReader
- Mapper
- Reducer
- Reporter
- OutputCollector
- Writable
- WritableComparable
- OutputFormat
- DistributedCache
- SequenceFile
- Compression types: NONE, RECORD, BLOCK
- Hadoop Streaming
- Hadoop Pipes
I reckon most of this would land up in the javadocs, specifically package.html and some via forrest.
Also, as discussed in HADOOP-1881, it would be quite useful to maintain documentation per-release, even on the hadoop website i.e. we could have a main documentation page link to documentation per-release and to the trunk.
Thoughts?
Attachments
Attachments
Issue Links
- is related to
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MAPREDUCE-412 JobConf needs better javadoc
- Resolved
- relates to
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HADOOP-1917 Need configuration guides for Hadoop
- Closed