On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org>wrote:
> > 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. > > I agree - I should have included that in this email, but wanted to divorce the two discussions (naive of me to think that could happen ;-) ) I think for the development series, we are going to be discouraging new users from downloading and trying it unless they're fine working through some problems. So a bit of confusion on a dev release series is no big deal. The "big" release, though, should be clearly separated. -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
