> Actually these two actions are related. > I can imagine the disappointment among hbase users if HBASE-3777 weren't > included in 0.90.3
I can also imagine the disappointment if we release a 0.90.3 that contains more bugs than it fixes, it goes both ways. Moreover, HBASE-3777 wasn't targeted and still isn't targeted for 0.90.3, so I don't see how even if someone paid attention to the jira they would expect to see it in 0.90.3 I'd like to state that I'm not trying to discredit the work that was done in that Jira, it was a perfect example of open source collaboration, but I'm rather trying to point out that it's a big change and that the bigger the change the better the chances are that there will be bugs lurking in it. You could easily list big patches that were committed to point releases in the past and I would agree with you that this is something we've done, but I can also recall a number of those changes that introduced more bugs and even made some releases unusable (like 0.20.4). Let's try to learn from our errors. Finally, even if it's not in 0.90.3, the fact that a backport be made available means that people can patch it in themselves or that other distros can decide to include it (like in the next CDH3 update). And finally we could do a 0.90.4 with it. J-D
