+1 Otherwise, it needs much more works for the future patches committing to 0.19 and 0.20 because of the code refactoring.
Nicholas Sze ----- Original Message ---- > From: Raghu Angadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:41:55 PM > Subject: Exception for HADOOP-4006 to go into feature froze 0.19 branch. > > > HADOOP-4006 does some code reorg, mainly HDFS. It was ready to be > committed for 0.19 before the 5 pm deadline for 0.19 last Friday. But I > messed it up committed it around 5:37pm. 0.19 was branched around 5:10 > and I didn't notice it. > > This patch modifies or renames quite a few constants used throughout > HDFS. So most patches that go into 0.19 will conflict with trunk. There > is no functionality change in this patch. > > I propose to have an exception for this patch and commit it to 0.19. I > take full responsibility for messing up the commit. > > thanks, > Raghu.