+1. I support developing the IPv6 changes directly on trunk. A separate feature branch seems unnecessary, especially if the work is split into small, reviewable patches. Targeting Hadoop 3.6.0 toward the end of the year sounds reasonable to me.
Best, Shilun Fan On 2026/08/19 05:09:57 Wei-Chiu Chuang wrote: > Would anyone object to developing this in the trunk branch? Given that > there's unlikely any minor releases before the completion of this project, > keep the IPv6 development in a feature branch seems like overkill. > > Let's shoot for Hadoop 3.6.0 release towards the end of the year? > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM Siyao Meng <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Hadoop community, > > > > We would like to revive IPv6 support work in Hadoop. The immediate goal is > > to address gaps in hadoop-common, hadoop-auth and hadoop-hdfs-client, > > so that IPv6 support in some downstream projects (such as Ozone) can be > > unblocked, which we estimated would take ~6 commits in hadoop. > > > > We plan to revisit the earlier work and turn the applicable parts into > > small, > > reviewable changes. The main areas would include address parsing and > > formatting, networking, utilities, and test coverage for IPv4, dual-stack, > > and IPv6-only environments. > > > > Feature branches HADOOP-11890 > > <https://github.com/apache/hadoop/compare/HADOOP-11890> and HADOOP-17800 > > <https://github.com/apache/hadoop/compare/HADOOP-17800> look too outdated > > to work on or to be merged to trunk. Therefore, we will not work on either > > feature > > branch. But we might harvest useful bits from either and put that on trunk. > > > > After the relevant changes are merged and validated, downstream projects > > will also need a Hadoop release that includes them. We would discuss and > > plan for that release after the changes are merged. > > > > Feedback on the proposed scope and approach would be appreciated. Please > > also let us know about any related work we should coordinate with, or if > > you would like to contribute or review patches. > > > > ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11890 > > > > Thanks, > > Siyao > > Hadoop committer, Ozone PMC member and committer > > On behalf of Ozone PMC > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
