If we do 0.7 as Stable as outlined below and then do a post-singularity 0.8 as Unstable as outlined below, I volunteer to maintain that 0.7/Stable branch until the community decides to EOL it, i.e. 0.8 is the new Stable and 0.9 is ...
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we have the bandwidth to do one stable distribution and another > unstable distribution, like Debian? > > We could be a bit aggressive with those terms, just given the nature of > the software here. For example: > > Stable - Hadoop 2.0.x, HBase 0.94, ZooKeeper 3.4.x, etc. > > Unstable - Hadoop 2.1.x, HBase 0.96, ZooKeeper 3.5 (if they release...). > > We would have two bleeding edges. One might sting a bit, but generally > addresses Cos' concerns (I think - Cos?). One might amputate a limb, but > would provide the whole ecosystem a peek at the post-singularity world. > There's already BIGTOP-1029. > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My main concern - as always - is a stability of the underlying components. >> And while the Bigtop's motto so far was 'the bleeding edge', that exactly >> what >> troubles me. >> >> I'd rather be a bit behind, but provide a stack with components that went >> through a certain degree of field testing. But it might be just me ;) >> >> Cos >> >> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:38PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > what I've noticed lately is that in quite a few >> > Hadoop ecosystem projects there have been >> > active work on 'singularity' releases. Two most >> > obvious example of this trend would be: Hadoop >> > 2.1.x-beta and HBase 0.96, but there's also >> > Hue 3.0, Oozie 4.0 and a few other things cooking. >> > >> > Perhaps it would make sense for us to stay ahead >> > of the game and offer an early opportunity for a >> > better integration to as many of these as we have >> > cycles/interest to tackle. >> > >> > I'd appreciate your thoughts and feedback on how >> > useful/feasible this might be. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Roman. >> > >> > P.S. Two clear example of Bigtop JIRAs which are >> > prime candidate for a 'singularity' branch/release >> > of Bigtop are, of course: >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1029 >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1042 >> > In fact, chances are both of them could end up >> > in something like Bigtop 0.8.0 >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
