I would like to see a 0.19.2 release soon. 0.19.2 appears to be stalled. I would like to see the stalled items pushed to 19.3 and a release of the more important items already fixed soon. Most of the more important fixes are already released in 0.20.0 . . .
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP/fixforversion/12313650 19.2 currently has 20 Critical fixes that were resolved or closed since 19.1 and many other important improvements. Many open issues have not been touched in a month or more. I have been hit by the following fixed issues recently, and indications based on comments in the core-user mailing list is that I'm not alone: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5465 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5241 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5231 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5269 Its probably safe to say that using the 0.19.2 unreleased branch right now is probably a much more stable and safe version than the released 0.19.1. http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=12310240&fixfor=12313650&resolution=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC The main issues pending are appends / sync() related and should be moved off to 19.3 - or forever as recent comments indicate this may wait until 0.21. Additionally many of the current open tickets have patches and are close to being closed out. Yet, 75% of these haven't been touched in 3+ weeks. Thanks, -Scott
