Hi, I vote for patching Giraph according to GIRAPH-1112, since it will be a future-proof (i.e. Hadoop-2.8.x) work around. Additionally, the list of issues resolved by hadoop-2.7.3 is rather long.
Olaf > Am 28.11.2016 um 16:06 schrieb MrAsanjar . <afsan...@gmail.com>: > > As part of Bigtop release 1.2 road-map, I upgraded hadoop to version 2.7.3 > last week. Unfortunately it appears the recent changes (HADOOP-11252) in > Hadoop 2.7.3 has broken source-level compatibility resulting in Apache > Graph build-break. This issue has been reported by > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GIRAPH-1112. > The good news is, it looks like the failure has been resolved by > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13579 that is targeted for > Hadoop 2.7.4. > > The question is, should we target hadoop 2.7.4 or maintain Hadoop 2.7.2 for > bigtop v1.2.0 ?