Bug#535891: RFP: disco -- Disco is a MapReduce implementation with jobs written in Python

[Ville Tuulos <tuulos@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm the upstream author of the Disco project and I'd be very happy to
see Disco included in Debian. We run Disco on some 100 Debian servers
currently, relying on a custom package repository. I know many people
who would benefit greatly from Disco being available in the official
Debian repository.

The current experimental Disco packages for Debian (lenny / squeeze)
can be found at

http://discoproject.org/debian/

which are generated from the debian-branch of the Disco Git repository
at http://github.com/tuulos/disco. I'm not an expert at Debian
packaging, so a proper Debian developer should have a critical look at
the scripts. I'm of course more than happy to help with any issues
related to the codebase.

Minor fix to the earlier message:

> Disco is a Java framework for building distributed, data-intensive
> applications modeled off of Google's MapReduce publication.

Disco is *not* a Java framework. It doesn't contain a single line of
Java code. It's mostly Python / Erlang / Javascript.

Best regards,

Ville Tuulos
Nokia Research Center