[SPARK-11056] Improve documentation on how to build Spark efficiently

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2, 1.6.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Kay Ousterhout
• Reporter: Kay Ousterhout
• Created: 11/Oct/15 19:36
• Updated: 15/Oct/15 00:50
• Resolved: 12/Oct/15 21:25

Description

Slow build times are a common pain point for new Spark developers. We should improve the main documentation on building Spark to describe how to make building Spark less painful.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #9068 (kayousterhout)