Hello Hive community. It is time for HCatalog to graduate from the Apache
Incubator. Given the heavy dependence of HCatalog on Hive the HCatalog
community agreed it made sense to explore graduating from the Incubator to
become a subproject of Hive (see
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/201209.mbox/%3C08C40723-8D4D-48EB-942B-8EE4327DD84A%40hortonworks.com%3E
and
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-hcatalog-user/201210.mbox/%3CCABN7xTCRM5wXGgJKEko0PmqDXhuAYpK%2BD-H57T29zcSGhkwGQw%40mail.gmail.com%3E
). To help both communities understand what HCatalog is and hopes to become we
also developed a roadmap that summarizes HCatalog's current features, planned
features, and other possible features under discussion:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HCATALOG/HCatalog+Roadmap

So we are now approaching you to see if there is agreement in the Hive community
that HCatalog graduating into Hive would make sense.

Alan.