Although projects can call a user vote and consider it, project committers make such decisions. Ultimately committers are responsible for insuring the quality of the code base. If a destabilizing change goes in to a point release and users are affected, committers in effect did not do their jobs well enough.
We had considerable trouble around 0.20.4 in this regard, though the change was a LOT bigger and more invasive -- IndexedTable. Personally, I'm satisfied that HBASE-3777 went into trunk. - Andy > 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.
