Did anyone consider the impact of making such a change on existing applications? Curious how it didn't fail any regression test? (the pattern that is reported to be broken is so common).
(I suffer from upgradephobia and this doesn't help) -----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hadoop 0.15.0 - Reporter issue w/ timing out Devaraj Das wrote: > There has been a change with respect to the way since progress reporting is > done since 0.14. The application has to explicitly send the status > (incrCounter doesn't send any status). Even if the application hasn't made > any progress, it is okay to call setStatus with the earlier status. Should we consider this a bug? Incrementing a counter is a sign of activity that should perhaps count towards keeping a task alive. Doug
