On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Joe Buck wrote:
> Noah and I talked about this a bit and the idea was not to push our code 
> upstream, but rather to host a fork locally so that we could decide when 
> to rev the version(s) we build against rather than just pulling trunk 
> from Hadoop's repo. We'd still be building the one or two .jar files 
> that users would have to configure Hadoop to find, but we'd have a full 
> version of Hadoop in our repo for consistency and what not.

This sounds like the right approach.  

Which repo to fork?  https://github.com/apache/hadoop ?

sage


> 
> -Joe Buck
> 
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Gregory Farnum wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Noah Watkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Development of the Hadoop shim layer is best done in the Apache Hadoop
> >> Git repository, so we can track up-stream and build for all the
> >> different versions that exist. Is keeping a clone in Inktank Github
> >> something that is possible / desired?
> > 
> > Are we sure we want to maintain it in a fork of their repo? (I'm not
> > saying we don't, just curious.) QFS recently published support for
> > Hadoop and apparently they only need two JARs to support the things
> > that everybody is running now. Either way, see
> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-dev/201210.mbox/%3ccc946699.1c97b%[email protected]%3E
> > and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8885 for the
> > discussion surrounding (not) sending that upstream and the
> > distribution strategy they ended up with.
> 
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