Contradiction in Hadoop Documentation -------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-7959 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7959 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: documentation Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Environment: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/util/Progressable.html Reporter: Bryan Halfpap Priority: Minor http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/util/Progressable.html The statement: "This is especially important for operations which take an insignificant amount of time since, in-lieu of the reported progress, the framework has to assume that an error has occured and time-out the operation." in the aforementioned URL directly contradicts http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/mapred_tutorial.html#Reporter which states: "where the application takes a significant amount of time to process individual key/value pairs, this is crucial since the framework might assume that the task has timed-out and kill that task." The two statements should be reconciled in order to remove confusion. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira