Ronald, On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ronald Petty <ronald.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Harsh, > > Thank you for the information. I still have a few more related questions: > > - Does this mean only releases under "tags" are built using ant? What > about the trunk (no build.xml in the root?)
All versions/branches/releases < 0.23 (Trunk is '0.24' in JIRAs) are non-mavenized. 1.0 was a few weeks ago known as 0.20.2xx, so that is non-maven as well. The plan is to rename 0.22 and 0.23 to such version names too soon but until that happens this _will_ be confusing, yes. Hope it is clear now? > - If I am going to attempt to contribute to Hadoop, do I check out > release-1.0.0 or trunk? They appear to differ. I presume 2.3/2.4/yarn is > the trunk and < 2.3 is the current releases of Hadoop? You need to contribute all fixes to trunk first, and then backport to older versions if absolutely critical/necessary and as applicable. > > Kindest regards. > > Ron > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Ronald, >> On 31-Dec-2011, at 6:46 AM, Ronald Petty wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > Can someone explain the different layouts in the following repos, >> > specifically regarding building from source? >> > >> > - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/trunk/ >> > - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/tags/release-1.0.0/ >> > >> > I am still learning my way around the source and repo and noticed on >> > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute it mentions you can build >> src >> > greater than .23 with Maven. I am not sure how to do that for the 1.0 >> > release. >> > >> > Maybe a similar questions is, if I was going to build the 1.0 release >> from >> > source, is that the correct tag? If so, what is the proper way to do it? >> >> Use a latest version of Apache Ant, and run the 'ant package' target. That >> is the correct tag for the release, yes. Know, however, that 1.0 is a >> rename of the 0.20 branch and is not a greater version over 0.23. >> >> > >> > I have been able to build the trunk with Maven after a few tweaks. It >> > still seems to be missing a couple of items using -Pdist (conf directory >> > and examples.) >> > >> > I appreciate the help. >> > >> > Kindest regards. >> > >> > Ron >> >> -- Harsh J
