[SLIDER-214] Usability improvements

• Type: Umbrella
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Slider 0.40
• Fix Version/s: Slider 0.60
• Sprint: Slider August #2
• Assignee: Sumit Mohanty
• Reporter: Sumit Mohanty
• Created: 07/Jul/14 18:33
• Updated: 02/Sep/14 22:22
• Resolved: 02/Sep/14 22:22

Description

Tracks various usability improvements.

• Slider command line and APIs
• Slider application package structure
• Minimal user input requirements with valid defaults
• Slider documentation and feature discoverability

Issue Links

• relates to: SLIDER-262 Slider agent should provide process supervision such as auto-restart
• relates to: SLIDER-261 Improvements to port allocation support
• relates to: SLIDER-188 Slider client should default to fs.defaultFS specified in slider-client.xml for hdfs paths provided in the input
• relates to: SLIDER-206 Slider client should accept a separate ZK quorum for applications and a root path within the quorum for application usage
• relates to: SLIDER-152 Convert HBase app package to be built with maven
• relates to: SLIDER-187 Use start/stop instead of freeze/thaw