[HIVE-15622] Remove HWI component from Hive

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: Web UI
• Target Version/s: 2.2.0
• Assignee: Wei Zheng
• Reporter: Wei Zheng
• Created: 13/Jan/17 18:12
• Updated: 21/Jul/17 18:36
• Resolved: 21/Jan/17 21:41

Description

This component seems to be obsolete, as it didn't get any meaningful update since 2012. And we don't see people discussing or complaining issues about this. Moreover, it caused a number of ptest issues which can be avoided.

We should remove this component as a cleanup effort.