Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the packaging and interoperability testing
of Hadoop-related projects. This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, etc...)
developed by a community with a focus on the system as a whole, rather than individual projects.
Bigtop is currently being incubated in the Apache Incubator
Packages have been built on Ubuntu 10.10, CentOS 5, Mageia 1 and openSUSE 11.4.
They can probably be built on other platforms as well.
Building Bigtop requires the following tools:
On Debian-based systems one also needs
Apache Bigtop is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.
