Hi Niels,

Yep, I'd say for something like that it's fine t fix the spelling as part of
another patch that touches those functions.

-Todd

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl> wrote:

> Hi Todd,
>
> > Unfortunately this is part of a public facing API, so it's a bit tough to
> > change without breaking a bunch of dependent code. So, I think despite
> the
> > annoying spelling mistake, it's not worth the pain to fix because of the
> API
> > breakage :(
>
> Yes, I fully agree. Changing public APIs is a monster.
>
> > If you find other spelling mistakes that are parts of internal APIs, feel
> > free to file JIRAs and patches to fix!
>
> The changes I was thinking about are limited to the junit testing
> files for the codecs. --> fully internal
>
> Specifically this one:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/trunk/src/test/core/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/TestCodec.java?view=markup
>
> Which contains (among others) this method: testSplitableCodecs
>
> As I'm actually touching these methods I'll include the changes in the
> patch I'm currently working on.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Niels Basjes
>



-- 
Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera

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