On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Gang, > > With hadoop-2.0.4-alpha released, I'd like 2.0.4 to be the final of our > hadoop-2.x alphas. > We have made lots of progress on hadoop-2.x and I believe we are nearly > there, exciting times!
Indeed! > As we have discussed previously, I hope to do a final push to stabilize > hadoop-2.x, release a > hadoop-2.0.5-beta in the next month or so; and then declare hadoop-2.1 as > stable this summer > after a short period of intensive testing. > > With that in mind, I really want to make a serious push to lock down APIs > and wire-protocols for hadoop-2.0.5-beta. > Thus, we can confidently support hadoop-2.x in a compatible manner in the > future. So, it's fine to add new features, > but please ensure that all APIs are frozen for hadoop-2.0.5-beta Arun, since it sounds like you have a pretty definite idea in mind for what you want 'beta' label to actually mean, could you, please, share the exact criteria? Either in the thread I started a few days ago: http://s.apache.org/da5 or here. That would be appreciated! Thanks, Roman.
