>> About connecting with other projects. >> HBase is compiling with 0.22. > > That is trunk of HBase right? IOW, we don't really have a released version > that is compatible with .22?
I mean HBase 0.92, which was branched recently. >> For Pig there is >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2277 >> For Hive created >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2468 >> >> The direction with Hive and Pig is to create shim layers for different >> versions. > > IOW, a single build of Hive and Pig being able to communicate > with different versions of Hadoop? > > This is fine, but sound more time consuming than what HBase is > doing (providing profiles to build against different versions of Hadoop). > > Regardless of how time consuming either approach is, I guess my > fundamental question would be -- do we have any kind of commitment > from the downstream guys to have a release compatible with .22? > > I guess I'm just wondering how these timelines of downstream > components will affect usability of any Hadoop release (be it .22 or .23). > Any thoughts on that? > > Thanks, > Roman. >
