Link to Contributing to Spark wiki page on README.md.
[SPARK-3169] Removed dependency on spark streaming test from spark flume sink

Due to maven bug https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1378, maven could not resolve spark streaming classes required by the spark-streaming test-jar dependency of external/flume-sink. There is no particular reason that the external/flume-sink has to depend on Spark Streaming at all, so I am eliminating this dependency. Also I have removed the exclusions present in the Flume dependencies, as there is no reason to exclude them (they were excluded in the external/flume module to prevent dependency collisions with Spark).

Since Jenkins will test the sbt build and the unit test, I only tested maven compilation locally.

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

Closes #2101 from tdas/spark-sink-pom-fix and squashes the following commits:

8f42621 [Tathagata Das] Added Flume sink exclusions back, and added netty to test dependencies
93b559f [Tathagata Das] Removed dependency on spark streaming test from spark flume sink
[SPARK-2963] REGRESSION - The description about how to build for using CLI and Thrift JDBC server is absent in proper document  -

The most important things I mentioned in #1885 is as follows.

* People who build Spark is not always programmer.
* If a person who build Spark is not a programmer, he/she won't read programmer's guide before building.

So, how to build for using CLI and JDBC server is not only in programmer's guide.

Author: Kousuke Saruta <sarutak@oss.nttdata.co.jp>

Closes #2080 from sarutak/SPARK-2963 and squashes the following commits:

ee07c76 [Kousuke Saruta] Modified regression of the description about building for using Thrift JDBC server and CLI
ed53329 [Kousuke Saruta] Modified description and notaton of proper noun
07c59fc [Kousuke Saruta] Added a description about how to build to use HiveServer and CLI for SparkSQL to building-with-maven.md
6e6645a [Kousuke Saruta] Merge branch 'master' of git://git.apache.org/spark into SPARK-2963
c88fa93 [Kousuke Saruta] Added a description about building to use HiveServer and CLI for SparkSQL
[SPARK-3068]remove MaxPermSize option for jvm 1.8

In JVM 1.8.0, MaxPermSize is no longer supported.
In spark `stderr` output, there would be a line of

    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=128m; support was removed in 8.0

Author: Daoyuan Wang <daoyuan.wang@intel.com>

Closes #2011 from adrian-wang/maxpermsize and squashes the following commits:

ef1d660 [Daoyuan Wang] direct get java version in runtime
37db9c1 [Daoyuan Wang] code refine
3c1d554 [Daoyuan Wang] remove MaxPermSize option for jvm 1.8
[Minor] fix typo

Fix a typo in comment.

Author: Liang-Chi Hsieh <viirya@gmail.com>

Closes #2105 from viirya/fix_typo and squashes the following commits:

6596a80 [Liang-Chi Hsieh] fix typo.
[SQL] Make functionRegistry in HiveContext transient.

Seems we missed `transient` for the `functionRegistry` in `HiveContext`.

cc: marmbrus

Author: Yin Huai <huaiyin.thu@gmail.com>

Closes #2074 from yhuai/makeFunctionRegistryTransient and squashes the following commits:

6534e7d [Yin Huai] Make functionRegistry transient.
[SPARK-2554][SQL] CountDistinct partial aggregation and object allocation improvements

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>
Author: Gregory Owen <greowen@gmail.com>

Closes #1935 from marmbrus/countDistinctPartial and squashes the following commits:

5c7848d [Michael Armbrust] turn off caching in the constructor
8074a80 [Michael Armbrust] fix tests
32d216f [Michael Armbrust] reynolds comments
c122cca [Michael Armbrust] Address comments, add tests
b2e8ef3 [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into countDistinctPartial
fae38f4 [Michael Armbrust] Fix style
fdca896 [Michael Armbrust] cleanup
93d0f64 [Michael Armbrust] metastore concurrency fix.
db44a30 [Michael Armbrust] JIT hax.
3868f6c [Michael Armbrust] Merge pull request #9 from GregOwen/countDistinctPartial
c9e67de [Gregory Owen] Made SpecificRow and types serializable by Kryo
2b46c4b [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into countDistinctPartial
8ff6402 [Michael Armbrust] Add specific row.
58d15f1 [Michael Armbrust] disable codegen logging
87d101d [Michael Armbrust] Fix isNullAt bug
abee26d [Michael Armbrust] WIP
27984d0 [Michael Armbrust] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into countDistinctPartial
57ae3b1 [Michael Armbrust] Fix order dependent test
b3d0f64 [Michael Armbrust] Add golden files.
c1f7114 [Michael Armbrust] Improve tests / fix serialization.
f31b8ad [Michael Armbrust] more fixes
38c7449 [Michael Armbrust] comments and style
9153652 [Michael Armbrust] better toString
d494598 [Michael Armbrust] Fix tests now that the planner is better
41fbd1d [Michael Armbrust] Never try and create an empty hash set.
050bb97 [Michael Armbrust] Skip no-arg constructors for kryo,
bd08239 [Michael Armbrust] WIP
213ada8 [Michael Armbrust] First draft of partially aggregated and code generated count distinct / max
[SPARK-2967][SQL]  Follow-up: Also copy hash expressions in sort based shuffle fix.

Follow-up to #2066

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #2072 from marmbrus/sortShuffle and squashes the following commits:

2ff8114 [Michael Armbrust] Fix bug
[SPARK-2871] [PySpark] add `key` argument for max(), min() and top(n)

RDD.max(key=None)

        param key: A function used to generate key for comparing

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1.0, 5.0, 43.0, 10.0])
        >>> rdd.max()
        43.0
        >>> rdd.max(key=str)
        5.0

RDD.min(key=None)

        Find the minimum item in this RDD.

        param key: A function used to generate key for comparing

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([2.0, 5.0, 43.0, 10.0])
        >>> rdd.min()
        2.0
        >>> rdd.min(key=str)
        10.0

RDD.top(num, key=None)

        Get the top N elements from a RDD.

        Note: It returns the list sorted in descending order.
        >>> sc.parallelize([10, 4, 2, 12, 3]).top(1)
        [12]
        >>> sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2).top(2)
        [6, 5]
        >>> sc.parallelize([10, 4, 2, 12, 3]).top(3, key=str)
        [4, 3, 2]

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #2094 from davies/cmp and squashes the following commits:

ccbaf25 [Davies Liu] add `key` to top()
ad7e374 [Davies Liu] fix tests
2f63512 [Davies Liu] change `comp` to `key` in min/max
dd91e08 [Davies Liu] add `comp` argument for RDD.max() and RDD.min()
[SPARK-2871] [PySpark] add approx API for RDD

RDD.countApprox(self, timeout, confidence=0.95)

        :: Experimental ::
        Approximate version of count() that returns a potentially incomplete
        result within a timeout, even if not all tasks have finished.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize(range(1000), 10)
        >>> rdd.countApprox(1000, 1.0)
        1000

RDD.sumApprox(self, timeout, confidence=0.95)

        Approximate operation to return the sum within a timeout
        or meet the confidence.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize(range(1000), 10)
        >>> r = sum(xrange(1000))
        >>> (rdd.sumApprox(1000) - r) / r < 0.05

RDD.meanApprox(self, timeout, confidence=0.95)

        :: Experimental ::
        Approximate operation to return the mean within a timeout
        or meet the confidence.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize(range(1000), 10)
        >>> r = sum(xrange(1000)) / 1000.0
        >>> (rdd.meanApprox(1000) - r) / r < 0.05
        True

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #2095 from davies/approx and squashes the following commits:

e8c252b [Davies Liu] add approx API for RDD
Clean unused code in SortShuffleWriter

Just clean unused code which have been moved into ExternalSorter.

Author: Raymond Liu <raymond.liu@intel.com>

Closes #1882 from colorant/sortShuffleWriter and squashes the following commits:

e6337be [Raymond Liu] Clean unused code in SortShuffleWriter
[SPARK-3192] Some scripts have 2 space indentation but other scripts have 4 space indentation.

Author: Kousuke Saruta <sarutak@oss.nttdata.co.jp>

Closes #2104 from sarutak/SPARK-3192 and squashes the following commits:

db78419 [Kousuke Saruta] Modified indentation of spark-shell