I think changing the connection "identity" handling is a pretty major change, and I'd be uncomfortable pushing it out in a point release before it's had time to be adequately tested. It's not even in the 0.90 branch yet. If we're trying to get out a 0.90.3 release sooner than later, then it doesn't seem to fit the bill.
FYI, I only see one reference to HBASE-3777 on the user list: http://search-hadoop.com/m/VYHN4QbRQ2 It may be solving real problems that people are having (I hope so!), but I don't see any clamoring for it to prevent a 0.90.3-rc. --gh On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > The possibility of HBASE-3777 creating bigger trouble than without is low, > in my opinion. > Maybe we should conduct a poll in user mailing list and count the votes. > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > 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 > > >
