Steve Loughran wrote:
Chris Douglas wrote:
> The new git repositories for HDFS and Map/Reduce,
> git://git.apache.org/hadoop-{mapreduce,hdfs}.git are up.
>
> There are two open issues:
> (1) What to do with the defunct git mirror that points to core
> (2) What to call the common mirror
>
> For (1), I'd advocate simply deleting it. There doesn't seem to be a
> compelling case for maintaining an archive of a mirror next to its
> active replacements.
How about pre-announce a planned deletion some months ahead, give people
time to migrate off
+1, for leaving it alone for some time as Steve says.
> For (2), the git mirror is currently being built as hadoop-common.git.
> Since it will contain the pre-0.21 tagged releases/branches and
> developers pulling from the old mirror will error out either way, I'd
> lean toward calling it hadoop.git, but am mostly ambivalent on this.
>
> The ticket for this is INFRA-2108. -C
I think hadoop-common.git is better - pre-21 hadoop-common contains
everything, post that, it only has common stuff. But like you, have no
strong opinion on this.
+Vinod
