It would be good to know the API additions between 2.4.x and 2.6.x that we think we can use immediately for some feature, to have a more informed vote.
Thanks On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:47 PM, David Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thomas created this ticket for upgrading our Hadoop dependency version a > couple weeks ago: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-536 > > We'd like to get the ball rolling and would like to take a vote from the > community which version we would like to upgrade to. We have these choices: > > 2.2.0 (no upgrade) > 2.4.x > 2.5.x > 2.6.x > > We are not considering 2.7.x because we already know that many Apex users > are using Hadoop distros that are based on 2.6. > > Please note that Apex works with all versions of Hadoop higher or equal to > the Hadoop version Apex depends on, as long as it's 2.x.x. We are not > considering Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha yet at this time. > > When voting, please keep these in mind: > > - The features that are added in 2.4.x, 2.5.x, and 2.6.x respectively, and > how useful those features are for Apache Apex > - The Hadoop versions the major distros (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, EMR, > etc) are supporting > - The Hadoop versions what typical Apex users are using > > Thanks, > > David >
