On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Sanjay Radia <sra...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > >> Then you'll have no issues patching other things in 0.21 that are >> actual >> bug fixes that also meet this criteria, right? Or does this only apply to >> things that Yahoo! is hitting/deemed worthy? >> > > > Allen raises a good point that the rest of the community may not need some > of the features that Yahoo > finds useful internally. It may clutter Hadoop unnecessarily. > Most of these admin GUI improvements are pluggable. > Perhaps this particular plugin did not even need to go into trunk. It > could have been made available as a separate downloadable or > contrib module. This way folks can use it across releases and only if they > need it. > > Further, there are a few new GUI improvements in the hadoop community that > are proprietary - we should make it easier to create new admin plugins > easily. This way users can create new plugins that are useful to them > internally; it also allows companies to create proprietary plugins for their > customers. > +1 to administration plugins. I'm also +1 to HDFS-758 going into 21, would be genuinely useful to several customers. Thanks, Eli
