On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote:
Actually my hope is in the plan of hadoop to once establish a
stable API (as
planned) so that an upgrade will be backwards compatible.
History shows you are in for a long wait.
I hope not and I'm trying to make sure that isn't true. At this point,
we have a lot of customers inside Yahoo who yell at our SVP when
anyone breaks API compatibility with the previous release.
My hope to get to the point where we do one major release a year and
each major release is backwards compatible with the previous major
release (as in you don't need to recompile your code). Bonus points if
we can get a minor release out at the half year point. And of course
bug fix releases as needed...
-- Owen
