Supportive +1, it's hard for us to see the big picture through the stream of patches and I think creating that branch goes hand in hand with what was said at the Hadoop Contributors meetup (not that we are tied to what was said there, but I remember that we all agreed that it was a good model for HBase too).
J-D On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Gray <jg...@facebook.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > So it's been a clunky and slow-moving process with HBASE-2694 and related > JIRAs. > > The most recent HBASE-2697 patch is supposed to be non-controversial but is > in fact controversial because there's really not much context to the changes. > > Instead of trying to make smallish patches that are each individually > reviewable, the consensus is that we should make a feature branch so that our > ideas can be seen through but still in a public forum. In the end we'll end > up with a branch which can be independently tested, a series of patches that > got us here, and incremental (but non-blocking) reviews along the way. > > Unless there is major opposition I'm going to cut the branch tonight. > > JG >
