Also, look at the Jira entry. There is active discussion on this particular feature (up to yesterday at least). Until the implementation strategy is chosen, don't look for implementation to happen.
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 10:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using Map/Reduce without HDFS? mfc wrote: > How can this get higher on the priority list? Even just a single appender. Fundamentally, priorities are set by those that do the work. As a volunteer organization, we can't assign tasks. Folks must volunteer to do the work. Y! has volunteered more than others on Hadoop, but that doesn't mean that anyone sets Y!'s priorities but Y!. The surest way to make things happen here is to do them yourself. If you're not qualified, then you can either: become qualified; help in other areas, where you are qualified, and hope this frees up folks to work on what you want; or, you can politely express your interest and patiently wait. That said, we all benefit from knowing what features others want. If a vast number of people are interested in a feature, then that indicates that the imolementation of that feature might bring new users. And new users typically bring new developers, and new developers make the project stronger. So please, don't hesitate to lodge feature requests and to vote for existing feature requests, but it would be a mistake to expect someone else to implement features on your schedule. Cheers, Doug
