> The current name for this release is 0.21. I think this is going to cause > user confusion due to the previous "lockstep versioning" that HBase has had > with regard to Hadoop. I think many people will assume they need to use > Hadoop 0.21 (being billed as an unstable release at least for 0.21.0) and > generally not quite understand why our version number is the same if we have > no tie to the Hadoop version. So, I am generally -1 on calling this next > HBase release 0.21.0.
I think there is going to be some level of confusion no matter what and calling our next as-proposed unstable release series 0.21 makes sense to me at least. - Andy