The Hue daemon is provided by a Cloudera CDH package, and it currently shows some issues:
- It is not compatible with Python3, and we'd need to package the new open-source version provided by Cloudera in case it was needed.
- We are migrating to Apache BigTop (leaving the Cloudera distro), that doesn't include Hue due to issue in packaging.
- Most of the Hue's use cases could be covered by other tools.
There are two main use cases for Hue:
- Analytics team (and others) checking the status of Oozie jobs. Long term we'd like to migrate to a different scheduling tool, like Apache Airflow, but until then this use case prevents any deprecation of Hue of course.
- Data exploration via Hive query editor. This use case could be replaced by Superset's sqllab (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Superset#SQL_Lab).
The first step of this task should be to ensure that the use case 2) is removed, then 1) will follow when a new scheduling tool will be available.